Job 18

Bildad’s Second Speech

18Then^a Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

²“How long^b will you^c hunt for words?^d

Consider,^e and afterward we shall speak.

³Why are we considered as animals?

Why are we taken as^f stupid in your^g eyes?

⁴“You who are tearing yourself^h in yourⁱ anger,

will the earth be forsaken because of you?^j

Or^k will the rock be removed from its place?

⁵Furthermore,^l the light of the wicked is put out,

and the flame of his fire will not shine.

⁶The light becomes dark in his tent,

and his lamp above him is put out.

⁷“His strong steps^m are shortened,

and his own schemesⁿ throw him down,

⁸for he is thrust into a net by his feet,

and he walks into a pitfall.

⁹A trap seizes him by the heel;

a snare takes hold of him.

¹⁰His rope is hidden in the ground,

and his trap on the path.

¹¹“Sudden terrors terrify him all around,

and they chase him at his heels.

¹²His wealth will become hunger,

and disaster is ready for his stumbling.

¹³It consumes parts of his skin;

the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

¹⁴He is torn from his tent in which he trusted,^o

and it brought him to the king of terrors.

¹⁵“Nothing^p remains for him in his tent;

sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.

¹⁶His roots dry up below,^q

and its branches^r wither away above.^s

¹⁷His remembrance perishes from the earth,

and there is not a name for him on the street.

¹⁸“They thrust him from light into darkness,

and they drive him out from the world.

¹⁹There is no offspring for him nor^t a descendant among his people,

and there is not a survivor in his abode.

²⁰Those of the west are appalled over his fate,^u

and those of the east are seized with horror.^v

²¹Surely these are the dwellings of the godless,

and this is the dwelling place of him who knows not God.”