Job 18

^{Job 18:1} Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

^{Job 18:2} “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

^{Job 18:3} Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

^{Job 18:4} You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

^{Job 18:5} Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

^{Job 18:6} The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

^{Job 18:7} His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

^{Job 18:8} For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

^{Job 18:9} A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

^{Job 18:10} A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

^{Job 18:11} Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

^{Job 18:12} His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

^{Job 18:13} It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

^{Job 18:14} He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

^{Job 18:15} Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

^{Job 18:16} The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

^{Job 18:17} The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

^{Job 18:18} He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

^{Job 18:19} He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

^{Job 18:20} Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

^{Job 18:21} Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”