Job 18:9-21 ▼

9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.

10 A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

11 Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.

12 Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

13 It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.

14 He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

15 Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

16 Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

17 His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

20 People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

21 Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.'|