Job 18 — LSV

18Verse 1And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:^{Verse 2}“When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.^{Verse 3}Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!^{Verse 4}He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?^{Verse 5}Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.^{Verse 6}The light has been dark in his tent, || And his lamp over him is extinguished.^{Verse 7}The steps of his strength are restricted, || And his own counsel casts him down.^{Verse 8}For he is sent into a net by his own feet, || And he habitually walks on a snare.^{Verse 9}A trap seizes on the heel, || The designing prevails over him.^{Verse 10}His cord is hidden in the earth, || And his trap on the path.^{Verse 11}Terrors have terrified him all around, || And they have scattered him—at his feet.^{Verse 12}His sorrow is hungry, || And calamity is ready at his side.^{Verse 13}It consumes the parts of his skin, || Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.^{Verse 14}His confidence is drawn from his tent, || And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.^{Verse 15}It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, || Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.^{Verse 16}From beneath his roots are dried up, || And from above his crop is cut off.^{Verse 17}His memorial has perished from the land, || And he has no name on the street.^{Verse 18}They thrust him from light to darkness, || And cast him out from the habitable earth.^{Verse 19}He has no continuator, || Nor successor among his people, || And none is remaining in his dwellings.^{Verse 20}At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, || And those [in the] east have taken fright.^{Verse 21}Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, || And this [is] the place God has not known.”