18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
18:2 “When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
18:3 Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
18:4 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?
18:5 “The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
18:6 The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
18:7 The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
18:8 His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders into its mesh.
18:9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
18:10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
18:11 Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
18:12 Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
18:13 It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs.
18:14 He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
18:15 Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
18:16 His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
18:17 The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
18:18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
18:19 He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
18:20 Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror.
18:21 Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who knows not God.”
18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
18:2 How long will you hunt for words? / Consider, and afterward we will speak.
18:3 Why are we considered to be like beasts / And have become unclean in your eyes?
18:4 You who tear yourself in your anger, / Will the earth be forsaken for your sake, / Or will the rock be removed from its place?
18:5 Indeed the light of the wicked goes out, / And the flame of his fire does not shine.
18:6 The light is darkness in his tent, / And his lamp above him goes out.
18:7 The steps of his strength are confined, / And his counsel has cast him down.
18:8 For he has been cast into a net by his own feet, / And he walks about on the webbing of a pitfall.
18:9 A snare grabs him by the heel; / A trap lays hold on him.
18:10 A rope is hidden for him on the ground, / And a trap for him, on the path.
18:11 Terrors frighten him all around / And chase him at his heels.
18:12 His strength is famished, / And calamity is prepared at his side.
18:13 It devours the members of his body; / The firstborn of death devours his members.
18:14 He is rooted out of his tent, in which he trusts; / And he is made to march to the king of terrors.
18:15 That which is not his dwells in his tent; / Brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
18:16 Beneath, his roots are dried up; / And above, his branch is withered.
18:17 The memory of him perishes from the earth, / And he has no name on the open plain.
18:18 He is thrust out from the light to the darkness / And driven from the world.
18:19 He has no posterity and no progeny among his people, / And there are none remaining where he sojourned.
18:20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, / As those who went before were horrified.
18:21 Surely these are the dwellings of the unjust, / And this is the place of him who does not know God.