Job 18

Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked

1 Then ^aBildad the Shuhite answered and said:

2 “How long will you ^bhunt for words?
Consider, and then we will speak.
3 Why are we counted as ^ccattle?
Why are we stupid in your sight?
4 You 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.
6 The light is ^gdark in his tent,
and his lamp above him is put out.
7 His strong steps are shortened,
and his ^hown schemes throw him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
and he walks on its mesh.
9 ⁱA trap seizes him by the heel;
a snare lays hold of him.
10 A rope is hidden for him in the ground,
a trap for him in the path.
11 ^jTerrors frighten him on every side,
and chase him at his heels.
12 His strength is famished,
and calamity is ^kready for his stumbling.
13 It consumes the parts of his skin;
^lthe firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
14 He is torn from the tent in which he trusted
and is brought to ^mthe king of terrors.
15 In his tent dwells that which is none of his;
ⁿsulfur is scattered over his habitation.
16 His ^oroots dry up beneath,
and his branches ^pwither above.
17 His ^qmemory perishes from the earth,
and he has no name in the street.
18 ^rHe is thrust from light into darkness,
and driven out of the world.
19 He has no ^sposterity or progeny among his people,
and no survivor where he used to live.
20 They of the west are appalled at his ^tday,
and ^uhorror seizes them of the east.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,
such is the place of him who ^vknows not God.”