Job 18

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⁵ The light of a wicked person's life will stop shining.
    His fire will no longer burn brightly.
⁶ His tent will be dark.
    The lamp that gives him light will stop burning.
⁷ Once he was strong
    but now his legs are weak.
    His own ideas cause him to fall down.
⁸ He does not know where he is going
    and he walks into a dangerous trap.
⁹ A trap catches his foot
    and he cannot move.
¹⁰ Someone has hidden a rope on the ground.
    It catches him as he walks along.
¹¹ Everywhere a wicked person goes,
    things frighten him.
    He cannot escape from them.
¹² Now he is hungry
    and his strength has disappeared.
Terrible trouble is ready to take hold of him
    whenever it has the chance.
¹³ A bad disease eats his skin.
It causes his arms and his legs to become useless
    and he dies.
¹⁴ Then he has to leave his tent
    where he had lived safely.
He will have to meet the terrible king of death.
¹⁵ Other people will live in his tent.
    They have used sulphur to burn all his things.^[b]
16 He is like a tree whose roots have become dry,
    and its branches have fallen off.
¹⁷ Nobody remembers that he ever lived.
    They have forgotten his name.
¹⁸ The wicked person has had to leave this world.
He has gone from a place where there is light
    to a place where it is dark.
¹⁹ He has no children or grandchildren.
    He has no family to live in his home.
²⁰ All people are very upset
    when they see what has happened to him.
Wherever they live,
    they are very upset.