Job 18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵ ‘Surely the light of the wicked is put out,
    and the flame of their fire does not shine.
⁶ The light is dark in their tent,
    and the lamp above them is put out.
⁷ Their strong steps are shortened,
    and their own schemes throw them down.
⁸ For they are thrust into a net by their own feet,
    and they walk into a pitfall.
⁹ A trap seizes them by the heel;
    a snare lays hold of them.
¹⁰ A rope is hid for them in the ground,
    a trap for them in the path.
¹¹ Terrors frighten them on every side,
    and chase them at their heels.
¹² Their strength is consumed by hunger,^[a]
    and calamity is ready for their stumbling.
¹³ By disease their skin is consumed,^[b]
    the firstborn of Death consumes their limbs.
¹⁴ They are torn from the tent in which they trusted,
    and are brought to the king of terrors.
¹⁵ In their tents nothing remains;
    sulphur is scattered upon their habitations.
¹⁶ Their roots dry up beneath,
    and their branches wither above.
¹⁷ Their memory perishes from the earth,
    and they have no name in the street.
¹⁸ They are thrust from light into darkness,
    and driven out of the world.
¹⁹ They have no offspring or descendant among their people,
    and no survivor where they used to live.
²⁰ They of the west are appalled at their fate,
    and horror seizes those of the east.
²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly,
    such is the place of those who do not know God.’