Job 18

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

² “When will you end these speeches?
Be sensible, and then we can talk.
³ Why are we regarded as cattle
and considered stupid in your sight?
⁴ You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger,
is the earth to be abandoned for your sake?
Or must the rocks be moved from their place?

⁵ “The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out;
the flame of his fire stops burning.
⁶ The light in his tent becomes dark;
the lamp beside him goes out.
⁷ The vigor of his step is weakened;
his own schemes throw him down.
⁸ His feet thrust him into a net;
he wanders into its mesh.
⁹ A trap seizes him by the heel;
a snare holds him fast.
¹⁰ A noose is hidden for him on the ground;
a trap lies in his path.
¹¹ Terrors startle him on every side
and dog his every step.
¹² Calamity is hungry for him;
disaster is ready for him when he falls.
¹³ It eats away parts of his skin;
death’s firstborn devours his limbs.
¹⁴ He is torn from the security of his tent
and marched off to the king of terrors.
¹⁵ Fire resides in his tent;
burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
¹⁶ His roots dry up below
and his branches wither above.
¹⁷ The memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name in the land.
¹⁸ He is driven from light into the realm of darkness
and is banished from the world.
¹⁹ He has no offspring or descendants among his people,
no survivor where once he lived.
²⁰ People of the west are appalled at his fate;
those of the east are seized with horror.
²¹ Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man;
such is the place of one who does not know God.”