Job 18

¹ And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —

² When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

³ Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

⁴ (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

⁵ Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

⁶ The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

⁷ Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

⁸ For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

⁹ Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.

¹⁰ Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

¹¹ Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.

¹² Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

¹³ It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death’s first-born.

¹⁴ Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

¹⁵ It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.

¹⁶ From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

¹⁷ His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.

¹⁸ They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

¹⁹ He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

²⁰ At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.

²¹ Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.