Job 18

Modern English Version

² “How long will it be until you put an end to words?
    Gain understanding, and afterwards we will speak.
³ Why are we counted as beasts
    and regarded as stupid in your sight?
⁴ You who tear yourself in anger,
    will the earth be forsaken for you?
    And will the rock be removed from its place?

⁵ “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out,
    and the spark of his fire will not shine.
⁶ The light will be dark in his tent,
    and his candle beside him will be put out.
⁷ The steps of his strength will be shortened,
    and his own counsel will cast him down.
⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
    and he walks upon a snare.
⁹ The trap will take him by the heel,
    and the snare will prevail against him.
¹⁰ The snare is laid for him in the ground,
    and a trap for him in the path.
¹¹ Terrors will make him afraid on every side
    and will drive him to his feet.
¹² His strength will be hungry,
    and destruction will be ready at his side.
¹³ It will devour the parts of his skin;
    the firstborn of death will devour his limbs.
¹⁴ His confidence will be rooted out of his tent,
    and it will bring him to the king of terrors.
¹⁵ They dwell in his tent who have no part with him;
    brimstone will be scattered upon his habitation.
¹⁶ His roots will be dried up beneath,
    and above his branch will dry up.
¹⁷ The memory of him will perish from the earth,
    and he will have no name in the street.
¹⁸ He will be driven from light into darkness,
    and chased out of the world.
¹⁹ He has neither descendant nor posterity among his people,
    nor anyone remaining in his dwellings.
²⁰ They who come after him will be astonished at his day,
    as they who went before were seized with fright.
²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked,
    and this is the place of him who does not know God.”