Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,⋮

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

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

4 You 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.⋮

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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