Job 18, side by side

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

¹Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

²“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

²How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

³Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

³Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

⁴You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

⁴He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

⁵“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

⁵Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁶The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

⁶The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

⁷The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

⁷The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

⁹A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

⁹The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

¹⁰A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.

¹⁰The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

¹¹Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

¹¹Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

¹²His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

¹²His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

¹³The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.

¹³It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

¹⁴He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

¹⁴His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

¹⁵There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

¹⁵It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

¹⁶His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.

¹⁶His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

¹⁷His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

¹⁸He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

¹⁹He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

¹⁹He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

²⁰Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

²⁰They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.