Job 18

1 Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 How long ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and then we will speak!

How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

3 Why are we accounted as brutes, And reputed vile in your sight?

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

4 Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger! Must the earth be deserted for thee, And the rock removed from its place?

Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

5 Behold, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the flame of his fire shall not shine.

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

6 Light shall become darkness in his tent, And his lamp over him shall go out.

The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

7 His strong steps shall be straitened, And his own plans shall cast him down.

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

8 He is brought into the net by his own feet, And he walketh upon snares.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

9 The trap layeth hold of him by the heel, And the snare holdeth him fast.

A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay hold on him.

10 A net is secretly laid for him on the ground, And a trap for him in the pathway.

A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.

11 Terrors affright him on every side, And harass him at his heels.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

12 His strength is wasted by hunger, And destruction is ready at his side.

His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

13 His limbs are consumed, Yea, his limbs are devoured by the first-born of death.

The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the first-born of death shall devour his members.

14 He is torn from his tent, which was his confidence, And is borne away to the king of terrors.

He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

15 They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 His roots below shall be dried up, And his branches above shall be withered.

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

17 His memory perisheth from the earth, And no name hath he in the land.

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

18 He shall be thrust from light into darkness, And driven out of the world.

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

19 He hath no son, nor kinsman among his people, Nor any survivor in his dwelling-place.

He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

20 They that come after him shall be amazed at his fate, As they that were before them were struck with horror.

They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted.

21 Yea, such is the dwelling of the unrighteous man; Such is the place of him who knoweth not God!

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.