Job 18

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:	1 But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:
2 What prevents you others from saying something? Think -- for it is our turn to speak!	2 How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.
3 Why do you regard us as animals, considering us no more than brutes?	3 Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?
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 ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?
5 The light of the wicked must certainly be put out, the lamp that gives him light cease to shine.	5 Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?
6 In his tent the light is dimmed, the lamp that shone on him is snuffed.	6 Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.
7 His vigorous stride loses its power, his own designs falter.	7 His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.
8 For into the net his own feet carry him, he walks into the snares.	8 For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.
9 A spring grips him by the heel, a trap snaps shut, and he is caught.	9 His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.
10 Hidden in the ground is a snare to catch him, pitfal s lie across his path.	10 A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.
11 Terrors threaten him from al sides following him step by step.	11 Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.
12 Hunger becomes his companion, by his side Disaster stands.	12 Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.
13 Disease devours his skin, Death's First-Born gnaws his limbs.	13 Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.
14 He wil be torn from the shelter of his tent, and you wil drag him to the King of Terrors.	14 Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.
15 You can live in the tent, since it is no longer his, and brimstone wil be scattered on his sheepfold.	15 Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.
16 Below, his roots dry out and his branches are blasted above.	16 Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.
17 His memory fades from the land, his name is forgotten in the countryside.	17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.
18 Driven from the light into the darkness, he is banished from the world,	18 He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.
19 without issue or posterity among his own people or a single survivor where he used to live.	19 Neither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.
20 His end appals the west and fills the east with terror.	20 The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.
21 Such indeed is the fate of the places where wickedness dwel s -- the home of everyone who knowsnot God.	21 And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.