Job 18:1-21 - Bildad's Second Speech

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: ² How long until you stop talking?
Show some sense, and then we can talk.
³ Why are we regarded as cattle,
as stupid in your sight?
⁴ You who tear yourself in anger—
should the earth be abandoned on your account,
or a rock be removed from its place?

⁵ Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished;
the flame of his fire does not glow.
⁶ The light in his tent grows dark,
and the lamp beside him is put out.
⁷ His powerful stride is shortened,
and his own schemes trip him up.
⁸ For his own feet lead him into a net,
and he strays into its mesh.
⁹ A trap catches him by the heel;
a noose seizes him.
¹⁰ A rope lies hidden for him on the ground,
and a snare waits for him along the path.
¹¹ Terrors frighten him on every side
and harass him at every step.
¹² His strength is depleted;
disaster lies ready for him to stumble.
¹³ Parts of his skin are eaten away;
death’s firstborn consumes his limbs.
¹⁴ He is ripped from the security of his tent
and marched away to the king of terrors.
¹⁵ Nothing he owned remains in his tent.
Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.
¹⁶ His roots below dry up,
and his branches above wither away.
¹⁷ All memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name anywhere.
¹⁸ He is driven from light to darkness
and chased from the inhabited world.
¹⁹ He has no children or descendants among his people,
no survivor where he used to live.
²⁰ Those in the west are appalled at his fate,
while those in the east tremble in horror.
²¹ Indeed, such is the dwelling of the unjust man,
and this is the place of the one who does not know God.