CPDV - Job - 18

18:1  But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:

18:2  How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.

18:3  Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?

18:4  You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?

18:5  Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?

18:6  Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.

18:7  His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.

18:8  For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.

18:9  His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.

18:10  A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.

18:11  Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.

18:12  Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.

18:13  Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.

18:14  Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.

18:15  Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.

18:16  Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.

18:17  Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.

18:18  He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.

18:19  Neither his offspring, nor his descendants, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.

18:20  The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.

18:21  And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.