The Book of Job

Chapter-18

Job 18:1 But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:

 

Job 18:2 How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.

 

Job 18:3 Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?

 

Job 18:4 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?

 

Job 18:5 Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?

 

Job 18:6 Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.

 

Job 18:7 His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.

 

Job 18:8 For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.

 

Job 18:9 His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.

 

Job 18:10 A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.

 

Job 18:11 Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.

 

Job 18:12 Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.

 

Job 18:13 Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.

 

Job 18:14 Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.

 

Job 18:15 Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.

 

Job 18:16 Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.

 

Job 18:17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.

 

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

 

Job 18:19 Neither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.

 

Job 18:20 The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.

 

Job 18:21 And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.