Job 18

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said :

²How long will you hunt for words ? Consider , and then we will speak .

³Why are we counted as cattle ? Why are we stupid in your sight ?

⁴You who tear yourself in your anger , shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place ?

⁵Indeed , the light of the wicked is put out , and the flame of his fire does not shine .

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

⁷His strong steps are shortened , and his own schemes throw him down .

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet , and he walks on its mesh .

⁹A trap seizes him by the heel ; a snare lays hold of him.

¹⁰A rope is hidden for him in the ground , a trap for him in the path .

¹¹Terrors frighten him on every side , and chase him at his heels .

¹²His strength is famished , and calamity is ready for his stumbling .

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

¹⁴He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors .

¹⁵In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation .

¹⁶His roots dry up beneath , and his branches wither above .

¹⁷His memory perishes from the earth , and he has no name in the street .

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

¹⁹He has no posterity or progeny among his people , and no survivor where he used to live .

²⁰They of the west are appalled at his day , and horror seizes them of the east .

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous , such is the place of him who knows not God .