Job 18:5-21

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁷ “His healthy stride is shortened,
and his own planning trips him up.
⁸ His own feet get him tangled in a net
as he walks around on its webbing.
⁹ A trap catches his heel.
A snare holds him.
¹⁰ A rope is hidden on the ground for him.
A trap is on his path ⌞to catch⌟ him.

¹¹ “Terrors suddenly pounce on him from every side
and chase him every step he takes.
¹² Hunger undermines his strength.
Disaster is waiting beside him.
¹³ His skin is eaten away by disease.
Death’s firstborn son eats away at the limbs of his body.
¹⁴ He is dragged from the safety of his tent
and marched off to the king of terrors.
¹⁵ Fire lives in his tent.
Sulfur is scattered over his home.
¹⁶ His roots dry up under him.
His branches wither over him.
¹⁷ All memory about him will vanish from the earth,
and his reputation will not be known on the street corner.
¹⁸ He will be driven from the light into the dark
and chased out of the world.
¹⁹ He will not have any children or descendants among his people
or any survivor where he used to live.
²⁰ People in the west are shocked by what happens to him.
People in the east are seized with horror.
²¹ This is what happens to the homes of wicked people
and to those who do not know God.”