Job Chapter 18
1 Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2 “How long will you stumble around for words?
Make some sense so we can talk.
3 Why do you treat us like animals?
You think we’re stupid?
4 Are you going to tear yourself to pieces in your anger?
Are we supposed to leave the world for fear of you?
Should ledge rocks quake out of place?
5 “The light of the wicked goes out;
their flame stops giving light.
6 Their tent is dark inside;
the lamp above them has gone out.
7 Their long strides have shortened;
their schemes have tripped them up.
Job 18:1-7
8 They get caught in a net by their feet
when they step on its mesh.
9 A trap seizes them by the heel;
a snare snaps shut on them.
10 A noose for them is hidden on the ground;
a trap lies on their path.
11 Panic all around terrifies them
and nips at their heels.
12 Their strength is famished;
disaster is ready to knock them down.
13 Disease eats away at their skin;
their rigid limbs are the first signs of death.
14 They’re torn from their secure tent
and taken to the king of terrors.
15 Nothing of theirs stays in their tent;
sulfur rains on their houses.
Job 18:8-15
16 Their roots have dried up below;
their branches break off above.
17 The memory of them fades from the land;
they don’t have a name people keep in mind.
18 They’ve been driven from light into darkness
and chased out of the world.
19 They don’t have any offspring among their people,
no survivors where they used to live.
20 People to the west are appalled at their fate;
those to the east are gripped with horror.
21 Surely that’s the kind of house ungodly people have;
such is the place of those who don’t know God.”
Job 18:16-21