Job 18, side by side

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

¹Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

²“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

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

³Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

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

⁴You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

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

⁵Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

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

⁶The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

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

⁷His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

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

⁸For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

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

⁹A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

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

¹⁰A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

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

¹¹Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

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

¹²His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

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

¹³It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

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

¹⁴He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

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

¹⁵Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

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

¹⁶The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

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

¹⁷The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

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

¹⁸He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

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

¹⁹He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

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

²⁰Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

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

²¹Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

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