Job 18:1-21
18 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite and said:—
2 How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand and afterwards we could speak.
3 Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? Or appear stupid in thine eyes?
4 One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger—For thy sake shall the earth be forsaken? Or the rock be moved out of its place?
5 Even the light of the lawless shall go out,—Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;
6 The light hath darkened in his tent, Yea his lamp above him goeth out;
7 The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, And his own counsel casteth him down;
8 For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, And upon a trap he marcheth;
9 There catcheth him—by the heel—a gin, There holdeth him fast—a noose:
10 Concealed in the ground is a cord for him,—And a snare for him on the path.
11 Round about terrors have startled him, And have driven him to his feet.
12 Let his strength be famished, And calamity be ready at his side;
13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;
14 Uprooted out of his tent be his confidence, And let it drive him down to the king of terrors;
15 There shall dwell in his tent what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;
16 Beneath let his roots be dried up, And above be cut off his branch;
17 His memorial have perished out of the land, And let him have no name over the face of the open field;
18 Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea out of the world let them chase him;
19 Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, Neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:
20 Over his day have they been astounded who come behind, And them who are in advance a shudder hath seized.
21 Surely these are the dwellings of him that is perverse, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
