Job 18

1 Then Bildad replied [again]:

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

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

“When will you stop your talk? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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

Why are we regarded as beasts, stupid in your sight?

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]?

You who tear at yourself in your anger, should the earth be forsaken for you or should the rocks be removed out of their places?

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.

Indeed, the light of the wicked person will be put out; the spark of his fire will not shine.

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

The light will be dark in his tent; his lamp above him will 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 steps of his strength will be made short; his own plans will cast him down.

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

For he will be thrown into a net by his own feet; he will walk into a pitfall.

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

A trap will take him by the heel; a snare will lay hold on 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 noose is hidden for him on the ground; and a trap for him in the way.

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.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side; they will chase him at his heels.

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

His wealth will turn into hunger, and calamity will be ready at his side.

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

The parts of his body will be devoured; indeed, the firstborn of death will devour his parts.

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

He is torn from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

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

People not his own will live in his tent after they see that sulfur is scattered within his home.

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

His roots will be dried up beneath; above will his branch be cut off.

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

His memory will perish from the earth; he will have no name in the street.

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 will be driven from light into darkness and be chased out of this world.

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

He will have no son or son's son among his people, nor any remaining kinfolk where he had stayed.

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

Those who live in the west will be horrified at what happens to him one day; those who live in the east will be frightened by it.

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

Surely such are the homes of unrighteous people, the places of those who do not know God.”