18:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

18:2  "When will you end these speeches?
Be sensible, and then we can talk.

18:3  Why are we regarded as cattle
and considered stupid in your sight?

18:4  You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger,
is the earth to be abandoned for your sake?
Or must the rocks be moved from their place?

18:5  "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out;
the flame of his fire stops burning.

18:6  The light in his tent becomes dark;
the lamp beside him goes out.

18:7  The vigor of his step is weakened;
his own schemes throw him down.

18:8  His feet thrust him into a net
and he wanders into its mesh.

18:9  A trap seizes him by the heel;
a snare holds him fast.

18:10  A noose is hidden for him on the ground;
a trap lies in his path.

18:11  Terrors startle him on every side
and dog his every step.

18:12  Calamity is hungry for him;
disaster is ready for him when he falls.

18:13  It eats away parts of his skin;
death's firstborn devours his limbs.

18:14  He is torn from the security of his tent
and marched off to the king of terrors.

18:15  Fire resides in his tent;
burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.

18:16  His roots dry up below
and his branches wither above.

18:17  The memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name in the land.

18:18  He is driven from light into darkness
and is banished from the world.

18:19  He has no offspring or descendants among his people,
no survivor where once he lived.

18:20  Men of the west are appalled at his fate;
men of the east are seized with horror.

18:21  Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man;
such is the place of one who knows not God."