Job 18:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Job 18:2
“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
Job 18:3
Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
Job 18:4
You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Job 18:5
Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Job 18:6
The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
Job 18:7
His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
Job 18:8
For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
Job 18:9
A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.
Job 18:10
A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.
Job 18:11
Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
Job 18:12
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
Job 18:13
It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
Job 18:14
He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
Job 18:15
Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
Job 18:16
The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
Job 18:17
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Job 18:18
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Job 18:19
He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
Job 18:20
Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
Job 18:21
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”