Job 18

1And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

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

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

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

3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, Andare become unclean in your sight?

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

4Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

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

5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

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

6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

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

7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

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

8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

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

9A gin shall take him by the heel, Anda snare shall lay hold on him.

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

10A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.

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

11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

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

12His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

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

13The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

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

14He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

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

15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

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

16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

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

17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

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

18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

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

19He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

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

20They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted.

21Only these <FI>are<Fi> tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.