KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 18
1 Bildad reproves Job of presumption and impatience. 5 The calamities of the wicked.
1¶ And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2Until when will you put an end to words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
3Why are we counted as beasts? Are we stupid in your eyes?
4One tearing his soul in his anger, shall the earth be forsaken for your sake? Or shall the rock move from its place?
5¶ Yes, the light of the wicked ones shall be put out; and the spark of his fire shall not blaze.
6The light shall be dark in his tent; and his lamp shall be put out above him;
7the steps of his strength shall be cramped, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8For he is sent into a net by his own feet; and he is walking on a snare;
9the trap shall take him by the heel; a snare shall be strong over him;
10the snare is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him on the way.
11¶ Terrors frighten him on every side and shall break him at his feet.
12His strength is hungry, and calamity shall be ready at his side.
13It devours parts of his skin; the first-born of death eats his parts.
14His hope shall be rooted out of his tent, and it makes him march to the king of terrors.
15What is not his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone is scattered on his dwelling.
16His roots are dried up beneath, and his branch shall wither above.
17His memory perishes from the earth, and there is no name to him on the face of the street.
18They push him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world.
19He shall have no son and no kinsman among his people, and no remnant in his dwellings.
20Those after him shall be amazed at his day; and those before were seized with horror.
21Surely these are the tents of the perverse one, and this the place that has not known God.
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