Job 18

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied and said:	1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:
2 When will you put an end to words? Reflect, and then we can have discussion.	2 What prevents you others from saying something? Think -- for it is our turn to speak!
3 Why are we accounted like the beasts, their equals in your sight?	3 Why do you regard us as animals, considering us no more than brutes?
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)?	4 Tear yourself to pieces if you will, but the world, for al your rage, wil not turn to desert, the rocks wilnot shift from their places.
5 Truly, the light of the wicked is extinguished; no flame brightens his hearth.	5 The light of the wicked must certainly be put out, the lamp that gives him light cease to shine.
6 The light is darkened in his tent; in spite of him, his lamp goes out.	6 In his tent the light is dimmed, the lamp that shone on him is snuffed.
7 His vigorous steps are hemmed in, and his own counsel casts him down.	7 His vigorous stride loses its power, his own designs falter.
8 For he rushes headlong into a net, and he wanders into a pitfall.	8 For into the net his own feet carry him, he walks into the snares.
9 A trap seizes him by the heel, and a snare lays hold of him.	9 A spring grips him by the heel, a trap snaps shut, and he is caught.
10 A noose for him is hid on the ground, and the toils for him on the way.	10 Hidden in the ground is a snare to catch him, pitfal s lie across his path.
11 On every side terrors affright him; they harry him at each step.	11 Terrors threaten him from al sides following him step by step.
12 Disaster is ready at his side,	12 Hunger becomes his companion, by his side Disaster stands.
13 the first-born of death consumes his limbs.	13 Disease devours his skin, Death's First-Born gnaws his limbs.
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;	14 He wil be torn from the shelter of his tent, and you wil drag him to the King of Terrors.
15 over his abode brimstone is scattered.	15 You can live in the tent, since it is no longer his, and brimstone wil be scattered on his sheepfold.
16 Below, his roots dry up, and above, his branches wither.	16 Below, his roots dry out and his branches are blasted above.
17 His memory perishes from the land, and he has no name on the earth.	17 His memory fades from the land, his name is forgotten in the countryside.
18 He is driven from light into darkness, and banished out of the world.	18 Driven from the light into the darkness, he is banished from the world,
19 He has neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any survior where once he dwelt.	19 without issue or posterity among his own people or a single survivor where he used to live.
20 They who come after shall be appalled at his fate; they who went before are struck with horror.	20 His end appals the west and fills the east with terror.
21 So is it then with the dwelling of the impious man, and such is the place of him who knows not God!	21 Such indeed is the fate of the places where wickedness dwel s -- the home of everyone who knowsnot God.