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1 Then
Bildad the Shuhite
answered,
2 “How
long will you
hunt for words?
Consider, and afterwards
we will speak.
3 Why
are we counted
as animals,
which have become
unclean in your
sight?
4 You
who tear yourself
in your anger,
will the earth be
forsaken for you?
Or will the rock
be removed out
of its place?
5 “Yes,
the light of
the wicked will
be put out.
The spark of
his fire won’t shine.
6 The
light will be dark
in his tent.
His lamp above
him will be put
out.
7 The
steps of
his strength will be shortened.
His own counsel will
cast him down.
8 For
he is cast
into a net
by his own feet,
and he wanders
into its mesh.
9 A
snare will take
him by the
heel.
A trap will catch
him.
10 A
noose is hidden
for him in
the ground,
a trap for
him on the
path.
11 Terrors
will make him
afraid on every
side,
and will chase
him at his heels.
12 His strength
will be famished.
Calamity will be
ready at his
side.
13 The members
of his body will be devoured.
The firstborn of
death will devour his members.
14 He
will be rooted out
of the security
of his tent.
He will be
brought to the
king of terrors.
15 There will
dwell in his tent
that which is none
of his.
Sulfur will be scattered
on his habitation.
16 His
roots will be
dried up beneath.
His branch will
be cut off above.
17 His
memory will perish
from the earth.
He will have
no name in
the street.
18 He
will be driven
from light into darkness,
and chased out of
the world.
19 He
will have neither
son nor grandson
among his people,
nor any remaining
where he lived.
20 Those who
come after will be
astonished at his
day,
as those who went
before were frightened.
21 Surely
such are the
dwellings of the
unrighteous.
This is the
place of him
who doesn’t know
God.”