1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: — YLT — Job 18:1
2 When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak. YLT — Job 18:2
3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes! YLT — Job 18:3
4 (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place? YLT — Job 18:4
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. YLT — Job 18:5
6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished. YLT — Job 18:6
7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel. YLT — Job 18:7
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. YLT — Job 18:8
9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing. YLT — Job 18:9
10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path. YLT — Job 18:10
11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet. YLT — Job 18:11
12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side. YLT — Job 18:12
13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born. YLT — Job 18:13
14 Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors. YLT — Job 18:14
15 It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur. YLT — Job 18:15
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. YLT — Job 18:16
17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. YLT — Job 18:17
18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out. YLT — Job 18:18
19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings. YLT — Job 18:19
20 At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright. YLT — Job 18:20
21 Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known. YLT — Job 18:21