JOB 18 (NIV)
- Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
- "When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
- Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
- You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?
- "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
- The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
- The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
- His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders into its mesh.
- A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
- A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
- Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
- Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
- It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs.
- He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
- Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
- His roots dry up below and his brnaches wither above.
- The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
- He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
- He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
- Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror.
- Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who knows not God."