Job 18
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Berean Standard Bible
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
2“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?
3Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
4Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
4You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
6The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
7His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.
8For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
9A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.
9A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.
10A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
10A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.
11Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.
11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
12His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.
12His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
13It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
13It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
14That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
14He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
16His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.
16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad.
17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
20They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.
20Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
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