Job 18

Bildad

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

²“When will you end these speeches?

Be sensible, and then we can talk.

³Why are we regarded as cattle

and considered stupid in your sight?

⁴You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger,

is the earth to be abandoned for your sake?

Or must the rocks be moved from their place?

⁵“The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out;

the flame of his fire stops burning.

⁶The light in his tent becomes dark;

the lamp beside him goes out.

⁷The vigor of his step is weakened;

his own schemes throw him down.

⁸His feet thrust him into a net;

he wanders into its mesh.

⁹A trap seizes him by the heel;

a snare holds him fast.

¹⁰A noose is hidden for him on the ground;

a trap lies in his path.

¹¹Terrors startle him on every side

and dog his every step.

¹²Calamity is hungry for him;

disaster is ready for him when he falls.

¹³It eats away parts of his skin;

death’s firstborn devours his limbs.

¹⁴He is torn from the security of his tent

and marched off to the king of terrors.

¹⁵Fire resides in his tent;

burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.

¹⁶His roots dry up below

and his branches wither above.

¹⁷The memory of him perishes from the earth;

he has no name in the land.

¹⁸He is driven from light into the realm of darkness

and is banished from the world.

¹⁹He has no offspring or descendants among his people,

no survivor where once he lived.

²⁰People of the west are appalled at his fate;

those of the east are seized with horror.

²¹Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man;

such is the place of one who does not know God.”