Job 18 — English–Hebrew Parallel

1 Then Baladad (Bildad) the shawachay (shuhite) inah (answer / respond),

2 “Id (until / as far as) long will you hunt for malayan (words)? Bayan (between), and afterwards we will dabar (word / matter).

3 Why are we chashab (counted) as animals, which have become tamah (unclean) in your iyan (eye)?

4 You who tarap (tear) yourself in your ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting), shall the aratz (Earth/land) be forsaken for you? Or shall the tzawar (rock) be ithaq (removed) out of its maqawam (place)?

5 “Yes, the awar (light) of the rashai (wicked) shall be daik (put) out, The shabayab (spark) of his ash (fire) shall not nagah (shine).

6 The awar (light) shall be chashak (darkness) in his ahal (tent). His nayar (lamp) above him shall be daik (put) out.

7 The tzaiday (steps) of his awan (strength) shall be shortened. His own itzah (counsel) shall shalak (cast) him down.

8 For he is shalach (send) into a rashath (net) by his own ragal (feet / foot), and he wanders into its mesh.

9 A pach (snare / trap) will achaz (take) him by the iqab (heel). A trap will chazaq (catch) him.

10 A noose is taman (hidden) for him in the aratz (Earth/land), a malakadath (trap) for him in the nathayab (way).

11 Balahawath (terrors) shall make him baith (afraid) on sabayab (surrounding) side, and shall chase him at his heels.

12 His awan (strength) shall be famished. Ayad (calamity) shall be kawan (ready) at his tzalai (side).

13 The members of his body shall be akal (eat). The bakawar (firstborn) of mawath (death) shall akal (eat) his members.

14 He shall be nathaq (rooted) out of his ahal (tent) where he mabatach (trusts). He shall be tzaid (brought) to the malak (king) of balahawath (terrors).

15 There shall shakan (place) in his ahal (tent) that which is balay (none) of his. Sulfur shall be zarah (scattered) on his nawah (habitation).

16 His sharash (roots) shall be yabash (dry land) up beneath. Mail (top/above) shall his qatzayar (branch) be namal (cut) off.

17 His zakar (remember) shall abad (destroy / perish) from the aratz (Earth/land). He shall have no sham (name) in the panayam (face).

18 He shall be hadap (driven) from awar (light) into chashak (darkness), and nadad (chased) out of the thabal (world).

19 He shall have neither nayan (son) nor grandson among his im (nation / people), nor any sharayad (remaining) magawar (where) he lived.

20 Those who acharawan (come) after shall be shamam (astonished) at his yawam (day), as those who qadamawanay (went) before were frightened.

21 Surely such are the mashakanawath (dwellings) of the iwal (unrighteous). This is the maqawam (place) of him who doesn't yadai (know) Al.”