Job 18

1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

and to answer Bildad [the] Shuhite and to say

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

till where? to set: make [emph?] snare to/for speech to understand and after to speak: speak

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

why? to devise: think like/as animal to defile in/on/with eye: seeing your

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

to tear soul: myself his in/on/with face: anger his because you to leave: forsake land: country/planet and to proceed rock from place his

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

also light wicked to put out and not to shine flame fire his

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

light to darken in/on/with tent his and lamp his upon him to put out

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

be distressed step strength his and to throw him counsel his

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

for to send: depart in/on/with net in/on/with foot his and upon latticework to go: walk

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

to grasp in/on/with heel snare to strengthen: hold upon him snare

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

to hide in/on/with land: soil cord his and snare his upon path

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

around: side to terrify him terror and to scatter him to/for foot his

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

to be hungry strength his and calamity to establish: prepare to/for stumbling his

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

to eat alone: pole skin his to eat alone: pole his firstborn death

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

to tear from tent his confidence his and to march him to/for king terror

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

to dwell in/on/with tent his (from without *Lb) to/for him to scatter upon pasture his brimstone

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

from underneath: under root his to wither and from above to languish foliage his

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

memorial his to perish from land: country/planet and not name to/for him upon face: surface outside

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

to thrust him from light to(wards) darkness and from world to wander him

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

not offspring to/for him and not progeny in/on/with people his and nothing survivor in/on/with sojourning his

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

upon day: today his be desolate: appalled last and eastern to grasp shuddering

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

surely these tabernacle unjust and this place not to know God