NETtext - Job - 18

18:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

18:2  "How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.

18:3  Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

18:4  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?

18:5  "Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

18:6  The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

18:7  His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

18:8  For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.

18:9  A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.

18:10  A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

18:11  Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.

18:12  Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

18:13  It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.

18:14  He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

18:15  Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

18:16  Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

18:17  His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

18:18  He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

18:19  He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

18:20  People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

18:21  'Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.'"