Job

 2 “How long will YOU people be at putting an end to words?

YOU should understand, that afterward we may speak.

 3 Why should we be reckoned as beasts+

[And] be regarded as unclean in YOUR eyes?

 4 He is tearing his soul to pieces in his anger.

For your sake will the earth be abandoned,

Or a rock move away from its place?

 5 The light also of wicked ones will be extinguished+

And the spark of his fire will not shine.

 6 A light itself will certainly grow dark in his tent,+

And in it his own lamp will be extinguished.

 7 His steps of vigor* will become cramped.

Even his counsel will cast him off.+

 8 For he will indeed be let go into a net by his feet,

And onto a network he will walk.+

 9 A trap will seize [him] by the heel;+

A snare+ keeps hold upon him.

10 A cord for him is hidden on the earth,

And a catching device for him on [his] pathway.

11 Round about, sudden terrors certainly make him start up in fright,+

And indeed chase him at his feet.

12 His vigor becomes famished,

And disaster+ stands ready to make him limp.

13 It will eat the pieces of his skin;*

The firstborn of death* will eat his limbs.

14 His confidence will be torn away from his own tent+

And it will march him to the king of terrors.

15 There will reside in his tent something that is not his;

Sulphur+ will be strewed upon his own abiding place.

16 Underneath will his very roots dry up,+

And, up above, his bough will wither.

17 The very mentioning of him will certainly perish from the earth,+

And he will have no name out in the street.

18 They will push him out of the light into the darkness,

And from the productive land* they will chase him away.

19 He will have no posterity and no progeny among his people,+

And there will be no survivor in his place of alien residence.

20 At his day the people in the West will indeed stare in amazement,

And a shudder will certainly seize even the people in the East.

21 Only these are the tabernacles of a wrongdoer,

And this is the place of one that has not known God.”*