Job 18 (New International Version)

Job 18

Bildad

 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 the wicked 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
       and 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 ^[a] 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 darkness
       and is banished from the world.

 ¹⁹ He has no offspring or descendants among his people,
       no survivor where once he lived.

 ²⁰ Men of the west are appalled at his fate;
       men of the east are seized with horror.

 ²¹ Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man;
       such is the place of one who knows not God."