Job, 18

1. Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:

1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

2. What prevents you others from saying something? Think -- for it is our turn to speak!

2. "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.

3. Why do you regard us as animals, considering us no more than brutes?

3. Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?

4. Tear yourself to pieces if you will, but the world, for all your rage, will not turn to desert, the rocks will not shift from their places.

4. You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

5. The light of the wicked must certainly be put out, the lamp that gives him light cease to shine.

5. "Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

6. In his tent the light is dimmed, the lamp that shone on him is snuffed.

6. The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

7. His vigorous stride loses its power, his own designs falter.

7. His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.

8. For into the net his own feet carry him, he walks into the snares.

8. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.

9. A spring grips him by the heel, a trap snaps shut, and he is caught.

9. A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.

10. Hidden in the ground is a snare to catch him, pitfalls lie across his path.

10. A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.

11. Terrors threaten him from all sides following him step by step.

11. Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

12. Hunger becomes his companion, by his side Disaster stands.

12. His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

13. Disease devours his skin, Death's First-Born gnaws his limbs.

13. By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.

14. He will be torn from the shelter of his tent, and you will drag him to the King of Terrors.

14. He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.

15. You can live in the tent, since it is no longer his, and brimstone will be scattered on his sheepfold.

15. In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.

16. Below, his roots dry out and his branches are blasted above.

16. His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.

17. His memory fades from the land, his name is forgotten in the countryside.

17. His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.

18. Driven from the light into the darkness, he is banished from the world,

18. He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

19. without issue or posterity among his own people or a single survivor where he used to live.

19. He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

20. His end appals the west and fills the east with terror.

20. They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.

21. Such indeed is the fate of the places where wickedness dwells -- the home of everyone who knows not God.

21. Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."