18:1   Bildad from Shuah said:

18:2   How long will you talk? Be sensible! Let us speak.

18:3   Or do you think that we are dumb animals?

18:4   You cut yourself in anger. Will that shake the earth or even move the rocks?

18:5   The lamps of sinful people soon are snuffed out,

18:6   leaving their tents dark.

18:7   Their powerful legs become weak, and they stumble on schemes of their own doing.

18:8   Before they know it,

18:9   they are trapped in a net,

18:10   hidden along the path.

18:11   Terror strikes and pursues from every side.

18:12   Starving, they run, only to meet disaster,

18:13   then afterwards to be eaten alive by death itself.

18:14   Those sinners are dragged from the safety of their tents to die a gruesome death.

18:15   Then their tents and possessions are burned to ashes,

18:16   and they are left like trees, dried up from the roots.

18:17   They are gone and forgotten,

18:18   thrown far from the light into a world of darkness,

18:19   without any children to carry on their name.

18:20   Everyone, from east to west, is overwhelmed with horror.

18:21   Such is the fate of sinners and their families who don't know God.