Job 18
1But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:
2How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.
3Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?
4You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?
5Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?
6Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.
7His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.
8For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.
9His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.
10A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.
11Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.
12Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.
13Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.
14Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.
15Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.
16Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.
17Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.
18He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.
19Neither his offspring, nor his descendants, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.
20The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.
21And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.