Job 18

²“How long will you hunt for words?

Consider, and then we shall speak.

³Why are we counted as cattle?

Why are we stupid in your sight?

⁴You who tear yourself in your anger—

shall the earth be forsaken because of you,

or the rock be removed out of its place?

⁵“Surely the light of the wicked is put out,

and the flame of their fire does not shine.

⁶The light is dark in their tent,

and the lamp above them is put out.

⁷Their strong steps are shortened,

and their own schemes throw them down.

⁸For they are thrust into a net by their own feet,

and they walk into a pitfall.

⁹A trap seizes them by the heel;

a snare lays hold of them.

¹⁰A rope is hid for them in the ground,

a trap for them in the path.

¹¹Terrors frighten them on every side,

and chase them at their heels.

¹²Their strength is consumed by hunger,

and calamity is ready for their stumbling.

¹³By disease their skin is consumed,

the firstborn of Death consumes their limbs.

¹⁴They are torn from the tent in which they trusted,

and are brought to the king of terrors.

¹⁵In their tents nothing remains;

sulfur is scattered upon their habitations.

¹⁶Their roots dry up beneath,

and their branches wither above.

¹⁷Their memory perishes from the earth,

and they have no name in the street.

¹⁸They are thrust from light into darkness,

and driven out of the world.

¹⁹They have no offspring or descendant among their people,

and no survivor where they used to live.

²⁰They of the west are appalled at their fate,

and horror seizes those of the east.

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly,

such is the place of those who do not know God.”