(GWT) Job 18 : 1 Then Bildad from Shuah replied [to Job],
(GWT) Job 18 : 2 "How long before your words will end? Think it through, and then we'll talk.
(GWT) Job 18 : 3 Why do you think of us as cattle? Why are we considered stupid in your eyes?
(GWT) Job 18 : 4 Why do you rip yourself apart in anger? Should the earth be abandoned for your sake or a boulder be dislodged?
(GWT) Job 18 : 5 "Indeed, the light of the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire stops glowing.
(GWT) Job 18 : 6 The light in his tent becomes dark, and the lamp above him is snuffed out.
(GWT) Job 18 : 7 "His healthy stride is shortened, and his own planning trips him up.
(GWT) Job 18 : 8 His own feet get him tangled in a net as he walks around on its webbing.
(GWT) Job 18 : 9 A trap catches his heel. A snare holds him.
(GWT) Job 18 : 10 A rope is hidden on the ground for him. A trap is on his path [to catch] him.
(GWT) Job 18 : 11 "Terrors suddenly pounce on him from every side and chase him every step he takes.
(GWT) Job 18 : 12 Hunger undermines his strength. Disaster is waiting beside him.
(GWT) Job 18 : 13 His skin is eaten away by disease. Death's firstborn son eats away at the limbs of his body.
(GWT) Job 18 : 14 He is dragged from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
(GWT) Job 18 : 15 Fire lives in his tent. Sulfur is scattered over his home.
(GWT) Job 18 : 16 His roots dry up under him. His branches wither over him.
(GWT) Job 18 : 17 All memory about him will vanish from the earth, and his reputation will not be known on the street corner.
(GWT) Job 18 : 18 He will be driven from the light into the dark and chased out of the world.
(GWT) Job 18 : 19 He will not have any children or descendants among his people or any survivor where he used to live.
(GWT) Job 18 : 20 People in the west are shocked by what happens to him. People in the east are seized with horror.
(GWT) Job 18 : 21 This is what happens to the homes of wicked people and to those who do not know God."