Job, 18

¹ And Bilʹdad the Shuʹhite proceeded to answer and say:

² “How long will YOU people be at putting an end to words? YOU should understand, that afterward we may speak.

³ Why should we be reckoned as beasts [And] be regarded as unclean in YOUR eyes?

⁴ He is tearing his soul to pieces in his anger. For your sake will the earth be abandoned, Or a rock move away from its place?

⁵ The light also of wicked ones will be extinguished And the spark of his fire will not shine.

⁶ A light itself will certainly grow dark in his tent, And in it his own lamp will be extinguished.

⁷ His steps of vigor^*1 will become cramped. Even his counsel will cast him off.

⁸ For he will indeed be let go into a net by his feet, And onto a network he will walk.

⁹ A trap will seize [him] by the heel; A snare keeps hold upon him.

¹⁰ A cord for him is hidden on the earth, And a catching device for him on [his] pathway.

¹¹ Round about, sudden terrors certainly make him start up in fright, And indeed chase him at his feet.

¹² His vigor becomes famished, And disaster stands ready to make him limp.

¹³ It will eat the pieces of his skin;^*1 The firstborn of death^*2 will eat his limbs.

¹⁴ His confidence will be torn away from his own tent And it will march him to the king of terrors.

¹⁵ There will reside in his tent something that is not his; Sulphur will be strewed upon his own abiding place.

¹⁶ Underneath will his very roots dry up, And, up above, his bough will wither.

¹⁷ The very mentioning of him will certainly perish from the earth, And he will have no name out in the street.

¹⁸ They will push him out of the light into the darkness, And from the productive land^*1 they will chase him away.

¹⁹ He will have no posterity and no progeny among his people, And there will be no survivor in his place of alien residence.

²⁰ At his day the people in the West will indeed stare in amazement, And a shudder will certainly seize even the people in the East.

²¹ Only these are the tabernacles of a wrongdoer, And this is the place of one that has not known God.”^*1