Job 18

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