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Job 18

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said:

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

2 "How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? Mark, and afterwards we will speak.

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

3 Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

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?

4 He teareth himself in his anger. Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? And shall the rock be removed out of his place?

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

5 "Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

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

6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

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

7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

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

8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

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

9 The trap shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

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

10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

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

11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

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

12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

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

13 It shall devour the strength of his skin; even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

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

14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

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

15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

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

16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

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

17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

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

18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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

19 He shall neither have son nor descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

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

20 They that come after him shall be dismayed at his day, as they that went before were frightened.

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

21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God."