Job 18

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:	1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 What prevents you others from saying something? Think -- for it is our turn to speak!	2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Why do you regard us as animals, considering us no more than brutes?	3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
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.	4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
5 The light of the wicked must certainly be put out, the lamp that gives him light cease to shine.	5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 In his tent the light is dimmed, the lamp that shone on him is snuffed.	6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 His vigorous stride loses its power, his own designs falter.	7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For into the net his own feet carry him, he walks into the snares.	8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9 A spring grips him by the heel, a trap snaps shut, and he is caught.	9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 Hidden in the ground is a snare to catch him, pitfal s lie across his path.	10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11 Terrors threaten him from al sides following him step by step.	11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 Hunger becomes his companion, by his side Disaster stands.	12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13 Disease devours his skin, Death's First-Born gnaws his limbs.	13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14 He wil be torn from the shelter of his tent, and you wil drag him to the King of Terrors.	14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15 You can live in the tent, since it is no longer his, and brimstone wil be scattered on his sheepfold.	15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 Below, his roots dry out and his branches are blasted above.	16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His memory fades from the land, his name is forgotten in the countryside.	17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18 Driven from the light into the darkness, he is banished from the world,	18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 without issue or posterity among his own people or a single survivor where he used to live.	19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20 His end appals the west and fills the east with terror.	20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
21 Such indeed is the fate of the places where wickedness dwel s -- the home of everyone who knowsnot God.	21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.