Job Chapter 18

Baldad again reproves Job and describes the miseries of the wicked.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

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

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit:

2 Usque ad quem finem verba jactabitis?
intelligite prius, et sic loquamur.
3 Quare reputati sumus ut jumenta,
et sorduimus coram vobis?
4 Qui perdis animam tuam in furore tuo,
numquid propter te derelinquetur terra,
et transferentur rupes de loco suo?
5 Nonne lux impii extinguetur,
nec splendebit flamma ignis ejus?
6 Lux obtenebrescet in tabernaculo illius,
et lucerna quæ super eum est extinguetur.
7 Arctabuntur gressus virtutis ejus,
et præcipitabit eum consilium suum.
8 Immisit enim in rete pedes suos,
et in maculis ejus ambulat.
9 Tenebitur planta illius laqueo,
et exardescet contra eum sitis.
10 Abscondita est in terra pedica ejus,
et decipula illius super semitam.
11 Undique terrebunt eum formidines,
et involvent pedes ejus.
12 Attenuetur fame robur ejus,
et inedia invadat costas illius.
13 Devoret pulchritudinem cutis ejus;
consumat brachia illius primogenita mors.
14 Avellatur de tabernaculo suo fiducia ejus,
et calcet super eum, quasi rex, interitus.
15 Habitent in tabernaculo illius socii ejus qui non est;
aspergatur in tabernaculo ejus sulphur.
16 Deorsum radices ejus siccentur:
sursum autem atteratur messis ejus.
17 Memoria illius pereat de terra,
et non celebretur nomen ejus in plateis.
18 Expellet eum de luce in tenebras,
et de orbe transferet eum.
19 Non erit semen ejus, neque progenies in populo suo,
nec ullæ reliquiæ in regionibus ejus.
20 In die ejus stupebunt novissimi,
et primos invadet horror.
21 Hæc sunt ergo tabernacula iniqui,
et iste locus ejus qui ignorat Deum.

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