The Book of Job

18: 1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

 ^18:2How long will ye hunt for words?

 Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

 ^18:3Wherefore are we counted as beasts,

 And are become unclean in your sight?

 ^18:4Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger,

 Shall the earth be forsaken for thee?

 Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
 
 

 ^18:5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,

 And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

 ^18:6The light shall be dark in his tent,

 And his lamp above him shall be put out.

 ^18:7The steps of his strength shall be straitened,

 And his own counsel shall cast him down.

 ^18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet,

 And he walketh upon the toils.

 ^18:9A gin shall take him by the heel,

 And a snare shall lay hold on him.

 ^18:10A noose is hid for him in the ground,

 And a trap for him in the way.

 ^18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,

 And shall chase him at his heels.

 ^18:12His strength shall be hunger-bitten,

 And calamity shall be ready at his side.

 ^18:13The members of his body shall be devoured,

 Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

 ^18:14He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth;

 And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

 ^18:15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his:

 Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

 ^18:16His roots shall be dried up beneath,

 And above shall his branch be cut off.

 ^18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth,

 And he shall have no name in the street.

 ^18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness,

 And chased out of the world.

 ^18:19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people,

 Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

 ^18:20They that come after shall be astonished at his day,

 As they that went before were affrighted.

 ^18:21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,

 And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.