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Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

2 "{How long} {will you hunt for words}? Consider, and afterward we shall speak.

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

3 Why are we considered as animals? [Why] are we taken as stupid in your eyes?

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

4 "[You who] are tearing {yourself} in your anger, will [the] earth be forsaken because of you? Or will [the] rock be removed from its place?

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 Furthermore, the light of [the] wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine.

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

6 The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

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

7 "{His strong steps} are shortened, and his [own] schemes throw him down,

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

8 for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall.

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

9 A trap seizes [him] by [the] heel; a snare takes hold of him.

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

10 His rope is hidden in the ground, and his trap on [the] path.

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

11 "Sudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels.

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

12 His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.

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

13 It consumes parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

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

14 He is torn from his tent {in which he trusted}, and it brought him to the king of terrors.

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

15 "{Nothing} remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.

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

16 His roots dry up {below}, and its branches wither away above.

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

17 His remembrance perishes from [the] earth, and [there is] not a name for him on [the] street.

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

18 "They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.

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

19 [There is] no offspring for him nor a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.

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

20 [Those of the] west are appalled over {his fate}, and [those of the] east {are seized with horror}.

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

21 Surely these [are] the dwellings of [the] godless, and this [is] the dwelling place of him [who] knows not God."

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