Job 18

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:	1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2 How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.	2 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
3 Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?	3 Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
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?	4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
5 Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?	5 "Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
6 Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.	6 The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
7 His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.	7 His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.
8 For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.	8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.
9 His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.	9 A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.
10 A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.	10 A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
11 Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.	11 Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
12 Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.	12 His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
13 Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.	13 By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
14 Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.	14 He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.
15 Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.	15 In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
16 Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.	16 His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.	17 His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
18 He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.	18 He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
19 Neither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.	19 He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
20 The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.	20 They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
21 And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.	21 Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."