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Job 18

1 Job, can't people like you ever be quiet?

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

2 If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you.

2 “When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.

3 What makes you think we are as stupid as cattle?

3 Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?

4 You are only hurting yourself with your anger. Will the earth be deserted because you are angry? Will God move mountains to satisfy you?

4 You 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 light of the wicked will still be put out; its flame will never burn again.

5 “The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.

6 The lamp in their tents will be darkened.

6 The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.

7 Their steps were firm, but now they stumble; they fall - victims of their own advice.

7 The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.

8 They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;

8 His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.

9 a trap catches their heels and holds them.

9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.

10 On the ground a snare is hidden; a trap has been set in their path.

10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.

11 All around them terror is waiting; it follows them at every step.

11 Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.

12 They used to be rich, but now they go hungry; disaster stands and waits at their side.

12 Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.

13 A deadly disease spreads over their bodies and causes their arms and legs to rot.

13 It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs.

14 They are torn from the tents where they lived secure, and are dragged off to face King Death.

14 He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

15 Now anyone may live in their tents - after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect them!

15 Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.

16 Their roots and branches are withered and dry.

16 His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.

17 Their fame is ended at home and abroad; no one remembers them any more.

17 The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.

18 They will be driven out of the land of the living, driven from light into darkness.

18 He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world.

19 They have no descendants, no survivors.

19 He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.

20 From east to west, all who hear of their fate shudder and tremble with fear.

20 People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror.

21 That is the fate of evil people, the fate of those who care nothing for God.

21 Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God.”