Job

2 “How long will you be snaring phrases?

See the point, and afterward we may talk.

4* you that tear yourself in your anger?

Is earth to be forsaken on your account,

and a rock shifted from its place?

5 A wrong-doer’s light does go out,

and the blaze of his fire gives no radiance.

6 Light turns dark in his tent,

and his lamp goes out over him.

7 His vigorous steps will be cramped

and his own purposes will upset him,

8* For he runs his feet into a net

and walks along on wickerwork.

9* A trap will grip his heel

and a noose clutch him.

10 The cord for him is hidden on the earth

and the snare for him along the path.

11* On all sides wraiths overwhelm him

and chevy him wherever he goes.

12 His vigor is famished

and calamity stands ready for his weakening.

13* His skin is eaten away by disease;

the firstborn of death eats his members.

14* He is torn out of his tent, what he trusted to,

and is marched to the king of wraiths.

15** There shall be living in his tent something that is not his;

brimstone shall be sprinkled over his lands.

16 His roots shall die out underneath

and his twigs wither overhead.

17 The memory of him is lost from earth

and there is no name of his over the wide world.

18* He is pushed out of light into darkness

and sent flitting out of the world.

19 He has neither chick nor child among his people

nor any survivor in the places he has visited.

20* Over the day that comes for him men of the west shall stand aghast

and men of the east be taken with a shudder.

21* Altogether such are the dwellings of a malefactor,

and like this is the place of one who knows not Deity.”