Job 18

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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