Job 18

¹But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying

²How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak

³Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you

⁴You, 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

⁵Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine

⁶Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished

⁷His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably

⁸For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web

⁹His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him

¹⁰A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path

¹¹Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet

¹²Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs

¹³Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms

¹⁴Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king

¹⁵Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle

¹⁶Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above

¹⁷Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets

¹⁸He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world

¹⁹Neither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country

²⁰The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror

²¹And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God