Job 18

CLV^{(i) 1} Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: ² How long before you shall make an end to these words? May you understand, and after that we shall speak. ³ For what reason are we reckoned like beasts Or counted unclean in your eyes? ⁴ O one tearing his soul to pieces in his anger, On account of you shall the earth be forsaken, And the rock be shifted from its place? ⁵ Indeed the light of the wicked shall be extinguished, And the flare of his fire shall not brighten. ⁶ The light in his tent, it will become dark, And his lamp above him, it shall be extinguished. ⁷ The steps of his virility shall become constricted, And his own counsel shall fling him down. ⁸ For he will be sent forth into a net by his feet, And he shall walk about on the mesh. ⁹ A snare shall hold him by his heel; A snag shall hold fast onto him. ¹⁰ The line of a noose is buried for him in the earth, And a seizing device for him on his track. ¹¹ Decadent things frighten him round about, And they hound him at his every footstep. ¹² His virility shall be turned to famishing, And calamity stands ready against his vital organs. ¹³ His skin shall be eaten by sickness; The firstborn of death shall eat his organs. ¹⁴ He shall be pulled away from his tent where his trust had dwelt; And it makes him march to the king of decay. ¹⁵ It shall tabernacle in his tent which no longer is his; Sulfur shall be sifted about his homestead. ¹⁶ From beneath, his roots dry up, And from above, his harvest branches are snipped off. ¹⁷ His remembrance perishes from the earth, And he has no name on the face of the open place. ¹⁸ They shall thrust him from light into darkness, And they shall chase him from the habitance. ¹⁹ For him there is no posterity and no progeny among his people, And there will be no survivor in the places of his sojourning. ²⁰ Westerners are appalled at his day of ruin, And easterners hold back in horror. ²¹ Surely these were the tabernacles of an iniquitous man, And this was the place of one who knew not El.