Job 18:5-21 ▼

5 |Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, And the flame of his fire gives no light.

6 |The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him.

7 |His vigorous stride is shortened, And his own scheme brings him down.

8 |For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.

9 |A snare seizes [him] by the heel, [And] a trap snaps shut on him.

10 |A noose for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the path.

11 |All around terrors frighten him, And harry him at every step.

12 |His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side.

13 |His skin is devoured by disease, The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

14 |He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors.

15 |There dwells in his tent nothing of his; Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.

16 |His roots are dried below, And his branch is cut off above.

17 |Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.

18 |He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.

19 |He has no offspring or posterity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

20 |Those in the west are appalled at his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror.

21 |Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God.|