Job Chapter 18 Young's Literal Translation

Job 18:1

And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

Job 18:2

When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

Job 18:3

Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

Job 18:4

(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

Job 18:5

Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

Job 18:6

The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

Job 18:7

Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

Job 18:8

For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

Job 18:9

Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.

Job 18:10

Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

Job 18:11

Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.

Job 18:12

Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

Job 18:13

It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.

Job 18:14

Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

Job 18:15

It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.

Job 18:16

From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

Job 18:17

His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.

Job 18:18

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

Job 18:19

He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

Job 18:20

At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.

Job 18:21

Only these `are' tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.