1    2   
Job, can't people like you ever be quiet?
  If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you.

3   
What makes you think we are as stupid as cattle?

4   
You are only hurting yourself with your anger.
  Will the earth be deserted because you are angry?
  Will God move mountains to satisfy you?

5   
The wicked man's light will still be put out;
  its flame will never burn again.

6   
The lamp in his tent will be darkened. ^note

7   
His steps were firm, but now he stumbles;
  he falls—a victim of his own advice.

8   
He walks into a net, and his feet are caught;

9   
  a trap catches his heels and holds him.

10   
On the ground a snare is hidden;
  a trap has been set in his path.

11   
All around him terror is waiting;
  it follows him at every step.

12   
He used to be rich, but now he goes hungry;
  disaster stands and waits at his side.

13   
A deadly disease spreads over his body
  and causes his arms and legs to rot.

14   
He is torn from the tent where he lived secure,
  and is dragged off to face King Death.

15   
Now anyone may live in his tent— ^note
  after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect it! ^note

16   
His roots and branches are withered and dry.

17   
His fame is ended at home and abroad;
  no one remembers him any more.

18   
He will be driven out of the land of the living,
  driven from light into darkness.

19   
He has no descendants, no survivors.

20   
From east to west, all who hear of his fate
  shudder and tremble with fear.

21   
That is the fate of evil men,
  the fate of those who care nothing for God.

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