Chapter
18
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of her fire shall not shine.
The light shall be dark in her tent. Her lamp above her shall be put out.
The steps of her strength shall be shortened. Her own counsel shall cast her down.
For she is cast into a net by her own feet, and she wanders into its mesh.
A snare will take her by the heel. A trap will catch her.
A noose is hidden for her in the ground, a trap for her in the way.
Terrors shall make her afraid on every side, and shall chase her at her heels.
Her strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at her side.
The members of her body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour her members.
She shall be rooted out of her tent where she trusts. She shall be brought to the queen of terrors.
There shall dwell in her tent that which is none of her. Sulfur shall be scattered on her habitation.
Her roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall her branch be cut off.
Hers memory shall perish from the earth. She shall have no name in the street.
She shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
She shall have neither daughter nor grandson among her people, nor any remaining where she sojourned.
Those who come after shall be astonished at her day, as those who went before were frightened.
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of her who doesn't know God."