Job 18

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,	1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied and said:
2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.	2 When will you put an end to words? Reflect, and then we can have discussion.
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?	3 Why are we accounted like the beasts, their equals in your sight?
4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?	4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be neglected on your account (or the rock be moved out of its place)?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.	5 Truly, the light of the wicked is extinguished; no flame brightens his hearth.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.	6 The light is darkened in his tent; in spite of him, his lamp goes out.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.	7 His vigorous steps are hemmed in, and his own counsel casts him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.	8 For he rushes headlong into a net, and he wanders into a pitfall.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.	9 A trap seizes him by the heel, and a snare lays hold of him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.	10 A noose for him is hid on the ground, and the toils for him on the way.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.	11 On every side terrors affright him; they harry him at each step.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.	12 Disaster is ready at his side,
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.	13 the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.	14 Fiery destruction lodges in his tent, and marches him off to the king of terrors. He is plucked from the security of his tent;
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.	15 over his abode brimstone is scattered.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.	16 Below, his roots dry up, and above, his branches wither.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.	17 His memory perishes from the land, and he has no name on the earth.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.	18 He is driven from light into darkness, and banished out of the world.
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.	19 He has neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any survior where once he dwelt.
20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.	20 They who come after shall be appalled at his fate; they who went before are struck with horror.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.	21 So is it then with the dwelling of the impious man, and such is the place of him who knows not God!