18:1   Then Bildad the Shuhite responded,

18:2   "How long will you hunt for words? Show understanding and then we can talk.

18:3  "Why do people regard us as beasts, As stupid in your eyes?

18:4  "O you who tear yourself in your anger-- For your sake the earth will become abandoned, Or the rock will move from its place?

18:5  "Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, And the flame of his fire gives no light.

18:6  "The light in his tent will darken, And his lamp goes out above him.

18:7  "His vigorous stride will shorten, And his own scheme brings him down.

18:8  "For he has fallen into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.

18:9  "A snare seizes him by the heel, And a trap snaps shut on him.

18:10  "A noose for him hides in the ground, And a trap for him on the path.

18:11  "All around terrors frighten him, And harry him at every step.

18:12  "His strength has diminished, And calamity rests ready at his side.

18:13  "His skin becomes devoured by disease, The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

18:14  "He has become torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors.

18:15  "There dwells in his tent nothing of his; Brimstone scatters on his habitation.

18:16  "His roots dry below, And his branch someone will cut off above.

18:17  " Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.

18:18  "He has become driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.

18:19  "He has no offspring or posterity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

18:20  "Those in the west feel appalled at his fate, And those in the east have become seized with horror.

18:21  "Surely such describe the dwellings of the wicked, And this we recognize as the place of him who does not know God."