{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/job/18","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:27:20.736Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":18,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":17,"nextChapter":19,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: — "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"It dwelleth in his tent — out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Only these are tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 18 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 18](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/18)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/18 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}