AB - Job - 18

18:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

18:2  How long will you continue? Gain understanding, and afterward we also may speak.

18:3  For why have we been silent before you like brutes?

18:4  Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? Or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

18:5  But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

18:6  His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

18:7  Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive him.

18:8  His foot also has been caught in a snare, and let it be entangled in a net.

18:9  And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

18:10  His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

18:11  Let pains destroy him round about, and let many enemies come about him,

18:12  vex him with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

18:13  Let the soles of his feet be devoured, and death shall consume his beauty.

18:14  And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

18:15  It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

18:16  His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

18:17  Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

18:18  Let one drive him from light into darkness.

18:19  He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

18:20  But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

18:21  These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.