Job 18 — NETB

18Verse 1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:^{Verse 2}“How long until you make an end of words?
You must consider, and then we can talk.
^{Verse 3}Why should we be regarded as beasts,
and considered stupid in your sight?
^{Verse 4}You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger,
will the earth be abandoned for your sake?
Or will a rock be moved from its place?
^{Verse 5}“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished;
his flame of fire does not shine.
^{Verse 6}The light in his tent grows dark;
his lamp above him is extinguished.
^{Verse 7}His vigorous steps are restricted,
and his own counsel throws him down.
^{Verse 8}For he has been thrown into a net by his feet
and he wanders into a mesh.
^{Verse 9}A trap seizes him by the heel;
a snare grips him.
^{Verse 10}A rope is hidden for him on the ground
and a trap for him lies on the path.
^{Verse 11}Terrors frighten him on all sides
and dog his every step.
^{Verse 12}Calamity is hungry for him,
and misfortune is ready at his side.
^{Verse 13}It eats away parts of his skin;
the most terrible death devours his limbs.
^{Verse 14}He is dragged from the security of his tent,
and marched off to the king of terrors.
^{Verse 15}Fire resides in his tent;
over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.
^{Verse 16}Below his roots dry up,
and his branches wither above.
^{Verse 17}His memory perishes from the earth,
he has no name in the land.
^{Verse 18}He is driven from light into darkness
and is banished from the world.
^{Verse 19}He has neither children nor descendants among his people,
no survivor in those places he once stayed.
^{Verse 20}People of the west are appalled at his fate;
people of the east are seized with horror, saying,
^{Verse 21}‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man;
and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”