Job 18:1-21
18 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* 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;*The firstborn of death* 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* 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.”*
Footnotes
^ Or, “uncanny power.”
^ “His skin will be eaten by disease,” by a slight correction of M.
^ “The firstborn of death,” that is, the most deadly disease.
^ “And from the productive land.” Heb., u·mit·te·velʹ; Lat., et de orʹbe, “and from the [terrestrial] circle.”
^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
