Job 18

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

2 How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

3 For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?

Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

4 Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

5 But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

6 His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

7 Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].

The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

8 His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.

His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

10 His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

11 Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,

He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

12 [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

14 And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

16 His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

19 He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

20 But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

21 These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.