Job 18

World English Bible

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

²“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

²“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

³Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

³Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

⁴You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

⁴You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

⁵“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

⁵Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

⁶The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

⁶The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

⁷The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

⁷His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

⁸For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

⁹A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

⁹A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

¹⁰A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.

¹⁰A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

¹¹Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

¹¹Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

¹²His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

¹²His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

¹³The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.

¹³It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

¹⁴He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

¹⁴He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

¹⁵There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

¹⁵Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

¹⁶His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.

¹⁶The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

¹⁷His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

¹⁷The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

¹⁸He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

¹⁸He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

¹⁹He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

¹⁹He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

²⁰Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

²⁰Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

²¹Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”