Job 18  American Standard Version

² How long will ye hunt for words?
Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
³ Wherefore are we counted as beasts,
And are become unclean in your sight?
⁴ Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger,
Shall the earth be forsaken for thee?
Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

⁵ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,
And the ^[a]spark of his fire shall not shine.
⁶ The light shall be dark in his tent,
And his lamp ^[b]above him shall be put out.
⁷ The steps of his strength shall be straitened,
And his own counsel shall cast him down.
⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
And he walketh upon the toils.
⁹ A gin shall take him by the heel,
And a snare shall lay hold on him.
¹⁰ A noose is hid for him in the ground,
And a trap for him in the way.
¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,
And shall chase him at his heels.
¹² His strength shall be hunger-bitten,
And calamity shall be ready ^[c]at his side.
¹³ The ^[d]members of his body shall be devoured,
Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
¹⁴ He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth;
And ^[e]he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
^15 [f]There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his:
Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath,
And above shall his branch ^[g]be cut off.
¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth,
And he shall have no name in the street.
¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness,
And chased out of the world.
¹⁹ He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people,
Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
^20 [h]They that come after shall be astonished at his day,
As they that went before ^[i]were affrighted.
²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,
And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.