Chapter 18

¹And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, ²How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak. ³Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight? ⁴Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place? ⁵Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine. ⁶The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out. ⁷The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. ⁸For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes; ⁹The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him; ¹⁰A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way. ¹¹Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps. ¹²His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side. ¹³The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members. ¹⁴His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors: ¹⁵They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation: ¹⁶His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off; ¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds. ¹⁸He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. ¹⁹He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn. ²⁰They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted. ²¹Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.