Job 18 — JPSTN

18Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:²How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.³Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?⁴Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?⁵Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.⁶The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.⁷The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.⁹A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.¹⁰A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.¹¹Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.¹²His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.¹³It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.¹⁴That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.¹⁵There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.¹⁶His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad.¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.¹⁹He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.²⁰They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.