Job

Chapter 18

Baldad setteth upon Job again, charging him with present impatience and former impiety, ℣.6 and that therefore he suffereth worthy punishment.

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But Baldad the Suhite answering, said:
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words? Understand ye first, and so let us How long will ye speak vaunting speak.
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Why are we reputed as beasts, and accounted vile before you?
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Which destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be transported out of their place?
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Shall not the light of the impious be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?
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The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the candle that is over him, shall be extinguished.
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The steps of his power shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.
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For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in the mashes thereof.
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The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.
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His gin is hid in the earth, and his spring upon the path.
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Fears shall terrify him on every side, and his feet shall entangle him.
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Let his strength be extenuated with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.
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Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let death the first-born consume his arms.
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Let his confidence be plucked away out of his tabernacle, and let destruction as a king tread upon him.
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Let the companions of him, that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.
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Let his roots be dried downward, and his harvest destroyed upward.
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Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets.
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He shall expel him out of light into darkness, and shall transport him out of the world.
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His seed shall not be, nor his progeny in his people, nor any remnants in his countries.
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In his day, the last shall be astonished, and horror shall invade the first.
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These are then the tabernacles of the wicked man, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.