Job 18

¹And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

²How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.

³Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?

⁴Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?

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

⁶The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.

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

⁸For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;

⁹The gin taketh him by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;

¹⁰A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.

¹¹Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.

¹²His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.

¹³The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.

¹⁴His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:

¹⁵They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:

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

¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.

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

¹⁹He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.

²⁰They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were affrighted.

²¹Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not ·God.[#Hebrew: El]