Job 18:16-17
Job 18:5-21 The Message (MSG)
“Here’s the rule: The light of the wicked is put out. Their flame dies down and is extinguished. Their house goes dark— every lamp in the place goes out. Their strong strides weaken, falter; they stumble into their own traps. They get all tangled up in their own red tape, Their feet are grabbed and caught, their necks in a noose. They trip on ropes they’ve hidden, and fall into pits they’ve dug themselves. Terrors come at them from all sides. They run dazed and confused. The hungry grave is ready to gobble them up for supper, To lay them out for a gourmet meal, a treat for ravenous Death. They are snatched from their home sweet home and marched straight to the death house. Their lives go up in smoke; acid rain soaks their ruins. Their roots rot and their branches wither. They’ll never again be remembered— nameless in unmarked graves. They are plunged from light into darkness, banished from the world. And they leave empty-handed—not one single child— nothing to show for their life on this earth. Westerners are aghast at their fate, easterners are horrified: ‘Oh no! So this is what happens to perverse people. This is how the God-ignorant end up!’”
Job 18:16-17 King James Version (KJV)
His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
Job 18:16-17 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
His roots are dried below, And his branch is cut off above. Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.
Job 18:16-17 New Century Version (NCV)
Their roots dry up below ground, and their branches die above ground. People on earth will not remember them; their names will be forgotten in the land.
Job 18:16-17 American Standard Version (ASV)
His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
Job 18:16-17 New International Version (NIV)
His roots dry up below and his branches wither above. The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
Job 18:16-17 New King James Version (NKJV)
His roots are dried out below, And his branch withers above. The memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name among the renowned.
Job 18:16-17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“The roots [of the wicked] are dried up below, And above, his branch is cut off and withers. “Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name on the street.