Job 18

Job 18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

Job 18:2 Until when will you stop talking? 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 your throat in anger — should the ground be abandoned on your account, or a rock be removed from its place?

Job 18:5 Yes, the light 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 is put out.

Job 18:7 His powerful stride is shortened, and his schemes trip him up.

Job 18:8 Because his own feet lead him into a net, and he strays into its mesh.

Job 18:9 A trap catches him by the heel; a noose seizes him.

Job 18:10 A rope lies hidden for him on the ground, and a snare waits for him along the path.

Job 18:11 Terrors frighten him on every side and harass him at every step.

Job 18:12 His strength is depleted; disaster lies ready for him to stumble.

Job 18:13 Layers of his skin are eaten away; death’s beginning consumes his limbs.

Job 18:14 He is ripped from the security of his tent and marched away to the king of terrors.

Job 18:15 Nothing he owned remains in his tent. Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.

Job 18:16 His roots below dry up, and his branches above wither away.

Job 18:17 All memory of him is destroyed from the ground; he has no name anywhere.

Job 18:18 He is pushed[1] from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.

Job 18:19 He has no children or seed among his people, no survivor where he used to live.

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 unjust man, and this is the place of the one who does not know God.

[1]הָדַף

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