Job 18

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

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

³Why are we counted as cattle?
Why are we stupid in your sight?

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

⁵“Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out,
and the flame of his fire does not shine.

⁶The light is dark in his tent,
and his lamp above him is put out.

⁷His strong steps are shortened,
and his own schemes throw him down.

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

⁹ A trap seizes him by the heel;
a snare lays hold of him.

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

¹¹ Terrors frighten him on every side,
and chase him at his heels.

¹²His strength is famished,
and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

¹³It consumes the parts of his skin;
the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

¹⁴He is torn from the tent in which he trusted
and is brought to the king of terrors.

¹⁵In his tent dwells that which is none of his;
sulfur is scattered over his habitation.

¹⁶His roots dry up beneath,
and his branches wither above.

¹⁷His memory perishes from the earth,
and he has no name in the street.

¹⁸ He is thrust from light into darkness,
and driven out of the world.

¹⁹He has no posterity or progeny among his people,
and no survivor where he used to live.

²⁰They of the west are appalled at his day,
and horror seizes them of the east.

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,
such is the place of him who knows not God.”

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