Job 18:1-15 ▼

1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:

2 “When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.

3 Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!

4 He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?

5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.

6 The light has been dark in his tent, || And his lamp over him is extinguished.

7 The steps of his strength are restricted, || And his own counsel casts him down.

8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, || And he habitually walks on a snare.

9 A trap seizes on the heel, || The designing prevails over him.

10 His cord is hidden in the earth, || And his trap on the path.

11 Terrors have terrified him all around, || And they have scattered him—at his feet.

12 His sorrow is hungry, || And calamity is ready at his side.

13 It consumes the parts of his skin, || Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.

14 His confidence is drawn from his tent, || And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.

15 It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, || Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.