^18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,^18:2 How long will you^* hunt for words? Consider and afterwards we will speak. ^18:3 Why are we counted as beasts, and have become unclean in your^* eyes?

    ^18:4 You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

    ^18:5 Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out and the spark of his fire will not shine. ^18:6 The light will be dark in his tent and his lamp above him will be put out. ^18:7 The steps of his strength will be restricted and his own counsel will cast him down.^18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet and he walks upon the toils. ^18:9 A trap will take him by the heel. A snare will lay hold on him. ^18:10 A noose is hid for him in the ground and a trap for him in the way.

    ^18:11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side and will chase him at his heels. ^18:12 His strength will be weakened by hunger and calamity will be ready at his side. ^18:13 The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his body-parts. ^18:14 He will be rooted out of his tent where he trusts and he will be brought to the king of terrors. ^18:15 There will dwell in his tent what is none of his. Brimstone will be scattered upon his dwelling. ^18:16 His roots will be dried up beneath and above his limbs be will cut off.

    ^18:17 His remembrance will perish from the earth and he will have no name in the street. ^18:18 He will be driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world. ^18:19 He will have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he traveled. ^18:20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

    ^18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous and this is the place of him who does not know God.