| 1. | Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: |
| 2. | "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak. |
| 3. | Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight? |
| 4. | You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place? |
| 5. | "Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine. |
| 6. | The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out. |
| 7. | His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down. |
| 8. | For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall. |
| 9. | A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him. |
| 10. | A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path. |
| 11. | Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels. |
| 12. | His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling. |
| 13. | By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs. |
| 14. | He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors. |
| 15. | In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation. |
| 16. | His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above. |
| 17. | His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street. |
| 18. | He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world. |
| 19. | He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live. |
| 20. | They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east. |
| 21. | Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God." |
