New International Reader's Version

Job 18:11-21 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

11. Terrors alarm them on every side. They follow them every step of the way.

12. Trouble would like to eat them up. Danger waits for them when they fall.

13. It eats away parts of their skin. Death itself feeds on their arms and legs.

14. They are torn away from the safety of their tents. They are marched off to the one who rules over death.

15. Fire races through their tents. Burning sulfur is scattered over their homes.

16. Their roots dry up under them. Their branches dry up above them.

17. No one on earth remembers them. Their names are forgotten in the land.

18. They are driven from light into darkness. They are thrown out of the world.

19. Their family dies out among their people. No one is left where they used to live.

20. What has happened to them shocks the people in the west. It terrifies the people in the east.

21. Now you know what the homes of sinners are like. Those who don't know God live in places like that."