Job 18

¹But Baldad the Suhite answering, said:

²How long will ye speak vaunting words? Understand ye first, and so let us speak.

³Why are we reputed as beasts, and accounted vile before you?

⁴Which destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be transported out of their place?

⁵Shall not the light of the impious be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?

⁶The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the candle that is over him, shall be extinguished.

⁷The steps of his power shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.

⁸For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in the mashes thereof.

⁹The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.

¹⁰His gin is hid in the earth, and his spring upon the path.

¹¹Fears shall terrify him on every side, and his feet shall entangle him.

¹²Let his strength be extenuated with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.

¹³Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let death the first-born consume his arms.

¹⁴Let his confidence be plucked away out of his tabernacle, and let destruction as a king tread upon him.

¹⁵Let the companions of him, that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.

¹⁶Let his roots be dried downward, and his harvest destroyed upward.

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

¹⁸He shall expel him out of light into darkness, and shall transport him out of the world.

¹⁹His seed shall not be, nor his progeny in his people, nor any remnants in his countries.

²⁰In his day the last shall be astonished, and horror shall invade the first.

²¹These are then the tabernacles of the wicked man, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.