Job 18

1 Then Bildad replied [again]:

Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

2 “When are you going to stop talking [RHQ]? If you would stop talking and listen, we could tell you something.

How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.

3 Why do you think that we are [as stupid] as cattle? [DOU, RHQ]

Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?

4 By being [very] angry and hurting yourself, do you think that doing that will shake the earth, or cause the rocks in the mountains to move? [RHQ]?

Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?

5 “What will happen is that the lives of wicked people [like you] end [as quickly as we can] put out a light or extinguish the flame of a fire.

Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?

6 And when the lamps above them [in their tents] are extinguished, there will be no light in those tents.

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

7 [For many years] they walked confidently, but later [in life it was as though] they stumbled and fell, because [they themselves did not heed] the advice [that they gave to others].

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

8 [It was as though] they walked into their own net or fell into a pit that they themselves have dug.

For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

9 [It was as though] a trap grabbed their heels and held them fast [DOU],

The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.

10 [as though the noose of] a rope that was hidden on the ground, [whose other end was fastened to the limb of a tree], seized them when they walked into it.

A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.

11 Everywhere they went, there were things that caused them to be terrified; [it was as though] those things were pursuing them and biting at their heels.

Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

12 They became hungry, with the result that they had no strength. They experienced disasters [PRS] constantly.

Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.

13 Diseases spread all over their skin/bodies; diseases that (caused their bodies to decay/destroyed their arms and legs).

Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.

14 [When they died, ] they were snatched away from their tents and brought to the one who rules over the dead.

Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.

15 Now their tents will burn down, when burning sulfur rains down on those tents!

Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.

16 [Because those who died had no descendants], they were [like trees whose] roots have dried up and whose branches have all withered [MET].

Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.

17 No one on the earth will remember them any more; no [one on any] street [will even remember] their names [MTY].

Let the memory of him perish from the earth and let not his name be renowned in the streets.

18 They will be expelled from the earth where there is light, and they will be sent into the place where it is dark.

He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

19 They will have no children or grandchildren, no descendants where they previously lived.

His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

20 People from the east to the west [who hear about what happened to them], will be shocked and horrified.

They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.

21 And that is what happens to ungodly/sinful people [like you], to people who (have no interest in/have rejected) God.”

These men are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.