Job 18

Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked

18Then ^aBildad the Shuhite answered and said:

²“How long will you ^bhunt for words?

Consider, and then we will speak.

³Why are we counted as ^ccattle?

Why are we stupid in your sight?

⁴You who ^dtear yourself in your anger,

shall the earth be forsaken for you,

or ^ethe rock be removed out of its place?

⁵“Indeed, ^fthe light of the wicked is put out,

and the flame of his fire does not shine.

⁶The light is ^gdark in his tent,

and his lamp above him is put out.

⁷His strong steps are shortened,

and his ^hown schemes throw him down.

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet,

and he walks on its mesh.

⁹ⁱA 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.

^11jTerrors frighten him on every side,

and chase him at his heels.

¹²His strength is famished,

and calamity is ^kready for his stumbling.

¹³It consumes the parts of his skin;

^lthe firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

¹⁴He is torn from the tent in which he trusted

and is brought to ^mthe king of terrors.

¹⁵In his tent dwells that which is none of his;

ⁿsulfur is scattered over his habitation.

¹⁶His ^oroots dry up beneath,

and his branches ^pwither above.

¹⁷His ^qmemory perishes from the earth,

and he has no name in the street.

^18rHe is thrust from light into darkness,

and driven out of the world.

¹⁹He has no ^sposterity or progeny among his people,

and no survivor where he used to live.

²⁰They of the west are appalled at his ^tday,

and ^uhorror seizes them of the east.

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,

such is the place of him who ^vknows not God.”