Job 18

1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

3 Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

4 One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, —For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

5 Even the light of the lawless, shall go out, —Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

6 The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

7 The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down;

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

8 For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth;

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

9 There catcheth him—by the heel—a gin, there holdeth him fast—a noose:

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

10 Concealed in the ground is a cord for him, —and a snare for him, on the path.

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

11 Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

12 Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

14 Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

15 There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;

It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

17 His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

18 Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

19 Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

20 Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

21 Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not El.