18Job 18

1And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --Select Job 18:1

2When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.Select Job 18:2

3Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!Select Job 18:3

4(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?Select Job 18:4

5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.Select Job 18:5

6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.Select Job 18:6

7Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.Select Job 18:7

8For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.Select Job 18:8

9Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.Select Job 18:9

10Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.Select Job 18:10

11Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him--at his feet.Select Job 18:11

12Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.Select Job 18:12

13It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.Select Job 18:13

14Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.Select Job 18:14

15It dwelleth in his tent--out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.Select Job 18:15

16From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.Select Job 18:16

17His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.Select Job 18:17

18They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.Select Job 18:18

19He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.Select Job 18:19

20At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.Select Job 18:20

21Only these are tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.Select Job 18:21