Job 18

1 అప్పుడు షూహీయుడైన బిల్దదు ఈలాగు ప్రత్యుత్తర మిచ్చెను

2 మాటలలో చిక్కుపరచుటకై మీ రెంతసేవు వెదకుదురు?మీరు ఆలోచన చేసి ముగించినయెడల మేము మాట లాడెదము.

3 మీ దృష్టికి మృగములుగానుమూఢులుగాను మేమెంచబడుట ఏల?

4 కోపముచేత నిన్ను నీవు చీల్చుకొనువాడా,నీ నిమిత్తము భూమి పాడుగా చేయబడునా?నీ నిమిత్తము కొండ దాని స్థానము తప్పునా?

5 భక్తిహీనుల దీపము ఆర్పివేయబడునువారి అగ్ని జ్వాలలు ప్రకాశింపకపోవును.

6 వారి గుడారములో వెలుగు అంధకారమగునువారియొద్దనున్న దీపము ఆరిపోవును

7 వారి పటుత్వముగల నడకలు అడ్డగింపబడునువారి స్వకీయాలోచన వారిని కూల్చును.

8 వారు వాగురలమీద నడచువారు తమ కాళ్లే వారిని వలలోనికి నడిపించును.

9 బోను వారి మడిమెను పట్టుకొనునువల వారిని చిక్కించుకొనును.

10 వారిని చిక్కించుకొనుటకై ఉరి నేలను ఉంచబడునువారిని పట్టుకొనుటకై త్రోవలో ఉచ్చు పెట్టబడును.

11 నలుదిక్కుల భీకరమైనవి వారికి భయము కలుగజేయునుభయములు వారిని వెంటాడి తరుమును.

12 వారి బలము క్షీణించిపోవునువారిని కూల్చుటకు ఆపద కాచియుండును.

13 అది వారి దేహ అవయవములను భక్షించునుమరణజ్యేష్ఠుడు వారి అవయవములను భక్షించును.

14 వారి ఆశ్రయమైన వారి గుడారములోనుండి పెరికివేయబడుదురువారు భీకరుడగు రాజునొద్దకు కొనిపోబడుదురు.

15 వారికి అన్యులైనవారు వారి గుడారములో నివాసము చేయుదురువారి నివాసస్థలముమీద గంధకము చల్లబడును.

16 క్రింద వారి వేళ్లు ఎండిపోవునుపైన వారి కొమ్మలు నరకబడును.

17 భూమిమీద ఎవరును వారిని జ్ఞాపకము చేసికొనరుమైదానమందు ఎక్కడను వారిని ఎరిగినవారు ఉండరు.

18 జనులు వారిని వెలుగులోనుండి చీకటిలోనికి తోలుదురుభూలోకములోనుండి వారిని తరుముదురు.

19 వారి ప్రజలలో వారికి పుత్రులైనను పౌత్రులైననుఉండరువారు నివసించిన స్థలములో తప్పించుకొనినవాడుఒకడైనను ఉండడు.

20 తర్వాత వచ్చినవారు వారిమీద పడిన శిక్షనుచూచివిస్మయమొందుదురుపూర్వముండినవారు దానిని చూచి దిగులుపడుదురు.

21 నిశ్చయముగా భక్తిహీనుల నివాసములకు ఇట్టి గతి పట్టునుదేవుని ఎరుగనివారి స్థలము ఇట్టిది.

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.