Job 18

Bildad Answers Job

18Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

²“When will you stop these speeches?

Be sensible, and then we can talk.

³You think of us as cattle,

as if we are stupid.

⁴You tear yourself to pieces in your anger.

Should the earth be vacant just for you?

Should the rocks move from their places?

⁵“The lamp of the wicked will be put out,

and the flame in their lamps will stop burning.

⁶The light in their tents will grow dark,

and the lamps by their sides will go out.

⁷Their strong steps will grow weak;

they will fall into their own evil traps.

⁸Their feet will be caught in a net

when they walk into its web.

⁹A trap will catch them by the heel

and hold them tight.

¹⁰A trap for them is hidden on the ground,

right in their path.

¹¹Terrible things startle them from every side

and chase them at every step.

¹²Hunger takes away their strength,

and disaster is at their side.

¹³Disease eats away parts of their skin;

death gnaws at their arms and legs.

¹⁴They are torn from the safety of their tents

and dragged off to Death, the King of Terrors.

¹⁵Their tents are set on fire,

and sulfur is scattered over their homes.

¹⁶Their roots dry up below ground,

and their branches die above ground.

¹⁷People on earth will not remember them;

their names will be forgotten in the land.

¹⁸They will be driven from light into darkness

and chased out of the world.

¹⁹They have no children or descendants among their people,

and no one will be left alive where they once lived.

²⁰People of the west will be shocked at what has happened to them,

and people of the east will be very frightened.

²¹Surely this is what will happen to the wicked;

such is the place of one who does not know God.”