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.