Job 18

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ “Yea, the light of the wicked is put out,
    and the flame of his fire does not shine.
⁶ The light is dark in his tent,
    and his lamp above him is put out.
⁷ His strong steps are shortened
    and his own schemes throw him down.
⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
    and he walks on a pitfall.
⁹ A trap seizes him by the heel,
    a snare lays hold of him.
¹⁰ A rope is hid for him in the ground,
    a trap for him in the path.
¹¹ Terrors frighten him on every side,
    and chase him at his heels.
¹² His strength is hunger-bitten,
    and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
¹³ By disease his skin is consumed,^[a]
    the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
¹⁴ He is torn from the tent in which he trusted,
    and is brought to the king of terrors.
¹⁵ In his tent dwells that which is none of his;
    brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
¹⁶ His roots dry up beneath,
    and his branches wither above.
¹⁷ His memory perishes from the earth,
    and he has no name in the street.
¹⁸ He is thrust from light into darkness,
    and driven out of the world.
¹⁹ He has no offspring or descendant among his people,
    and no survivor where he used to live.
²⁰ They of the west are appalled at his day,
    and horror seizes them of the east.
²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly,
    such is the place of him who knows not God.”