Job 18

Bildad’s Second Response to Job ¹Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

²“How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer! ³ Do you think we are mere animals? Do you think we are stupid? ⁴ You may tear out your hair in anger, but will that destroy the earth? Will it make the rocks tremble?

⁵“Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. The sparks of their fire will not glow. ⁶ The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched. ⁷ The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall. ⁸ The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit. ⁹ A trap grabs them by the heel. A snare holds them tight. ¹⁰ A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path.

¹¹“Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step. ¹² Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble. ¹³ Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs. ¹⁴ They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors. ¹⁵ The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses. ¹⁶ Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither. ¹⁷ All memory of their existence will fade from the earth, No one will remember their names. ¹⁸ They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world. ¹⁹ They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived. ²⁰ People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified. ²¹ They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.’”