⁵ “Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out,

And the spark from his fire does not shine.

⁶ The light in his tent is darkened,

And his lamp goes out above him.

⁷ His ^[b]vigorous stride is shortened,

And his own plan brings him down.

⁸ For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,

And he steps on the webbing.

⁹ A snare seizes him by the heel,

And a trap snaps shut on him.

¹⁰ A noose for him is hidden in the ground,

And a trap for him on the pathway.

¹¹ All around sudden terrors frighten him,

And harass him at every step.

¹² His strength is famished,

And disaster is ready at his side.

^13 [c]It devours parts of his skin,

The firstborn of death devours his ^[d]limbs.

¹⁴ He is torn from ^[e]the security of his tent,

And ^[f]they march him before the king of terrors.

^15 [g]Nothing of his dwells in his tent;

Brimstone is scattered on his home.

¹⁶ His roots are dried below,

And his branch withers above.

¹⁷ The memory of him perishes from the earth,

And he has no name abroad.

^18 [h]He is driven from light into darkness,

And chased from the inhabited world.

¹⁹ He has no offspring or descendants among his people,

Nor any survivor where he resided.

²⁰ Those in the west are appalled at his ^[i]fate,

And those in the east are seized with horror.

²¹ Certainly these are the dwellings of the wicked,

And this is the place of him who does not know God.”

Footnotes

1. Job 18:4 Lit The one who tears himself in his
2. Job 18:7 Lit steps of his strength
3. Job 18:13 Another reading is His skin is devoured by illness
4. Job 18:13 Or parts
5. Job 18:14 Lit his tent his trust
6. Job 18:14 Lit you march or she marches
7. Job 18:15 Another reading is Fire dwells in his tent
8. Job 18:18 Lit They drive him...And chase him
9. Job 18:20 Lit day