✠ The Douay-Rheims Bible
✠ Job 18
Chapters
JOB 18:1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
JOB 18:2 How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.
JOB 18:3 Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?
JOB 18:4 Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?
JOB 18:5 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?
JOB 18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.
JOB 18:7 The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.
JOB 18:8 For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.
JOB 18:9 The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.
JOB 18:10 A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.
JOB 18:11 Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.
JOB 18:12 Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.
JOB 18:13 Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.
JOB 18:14 Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.
JOB 18:15 Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.
JOB 18:16 Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.
JOB 18:17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth and let not his name be renowned in the streets.
JOB 18:18 He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.
JOB 18:19 His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.
JOB 18:20 They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.
JOB 18:21 These men are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.