Job 18

MSTC^{(i) 1} Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ² "When will ye make an end of your words? Mark well, and consider, we will speak also. ³ Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed so vile in your sight? ⁴ Why destroyest thou thyself with anger? Shall the earth be forsaken, or the stones removed out of their place because of thee? ⁵ Shall not the light of the ungodly be put out? Yea, the flame of his fire shall not burn. ⁶ The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him. ⁷ His presumptuous goings shall be kept in, and his own counsel shall cast him down. ⁸ For his feet shall be taken in the net, and he is at his wits end. ⁹ His foot shall be holden in the gilder, and the thirsty shall catch him. ¹⁰ The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a pitfall in the way. ¹¹ "Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, that he shall not know where to get out. ¹² Hunger shall be his substance, and misfortune shall hang upon him. ¹³ He shall eat the strength of his own skin; the firstborn of death shall eat his members. ¹⁴ All his comfort and hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him unto the king of fear. ¹⁵ Other men shall dwell in his house - which now is none of his - and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. ¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his harvest be cut down. ¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and his name shall not be praised in the streets: ¹⁸ he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall neither have children nor kinfolks among his people, no nor any posterity in his country: ²⁰ young and old shall be astonished at his death. ²¹ Such are now the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God."