# Job 18 (New King James Version)
Bildad: The Wicked Are Punished

##### Chapter 18
###### 1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

###### 2 "How long _till_ you put an end to words?  
Gain understanding, and afterward we will speak.  

###### 3 Why are we counted as beasts,  
_And_ regarded as stupid in your sight?  

###### 4 You who tear yourself in anger,  
Shall the earth be forsaken for you?  
Or shall the rock be removed from its place?

###### 5 "The light of the wicked indeed goes out,  
And the flame of his fire does not shine.  

###### 6 The light is dark in his tent,  
And his lamp beside him is put out.  

###### 7 The steps of his strength are shortened,  
And his own counsel casts him down.  

###### 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet,  
And he walks into a snare.  

###### 9 The net takes _him_ by the heel,  
_And_ a snare lays hold of him.  

###### 10 A noose _is_ hidden for him on the ground,  
And a trap for him in the road.  

###### 11 Terrors frighten him on every side,  
And drive him to his feet.  

###### 12 His strength is starved,  
And destruction _is_ ready at his side.  

###### 13 It devours patches of his skin;  
The firstborn of death devours his limbs.  

###### 14 He is uprooted from the shelter of his tent,  
And they parade him before the king of terrors.  

###### 15 They dwell in his tent _who are_ none of his;  
Brimstone is scattered on his dwelling.  

###### 16 His roots are dried out below,  
And his branch withers above.  

###### 17 The memory of him perishes from the earth,  
And he has no name among the renowned.  

###### 18 He is driven from light into darkness,  
And chased out of the world.  

###### 19 He has neither son nor posterity among his people,  
Nor any remaining in his dwellings.  

###### 20 Those in the west are astonished at his day,  
As those in the east are frightened.  

###### 21 Surely such _are_ the dwellings of the wicked,  
And this _is_ the place _of him who_ does not know God."