| 1. | Then Bildad the Shuhite replied and said: |
| 2. | When will you put an end to words? Reflect, and then we can have discussion. |
| 3. | Why are we accounted like the beasts, their equals in your sight? |
| 4. | You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be neglected on your account (or the rock be moved out of its place)? |
| 5. | Truly, the light of the wicked is extinguished; no flame brightens his hearth. |
| 6. | The light is darkened in his tent; in spite of him, his lamp goes out. |
| 7. | His vigorous steps are hemmed in, and his own counsel casts him down. |
| 8. | For he rushes headlong into a net, and he wanders into a pitfall. |
| 9. | A trap seizes him by the heel, and a snare lays hold of him. |
| 10. | A noose for him is hid on the ground, and the toils for him on the way. |
| 11. | On every side terrors affright him; they harry him at each step. |
| 12. | Disaster is ready at his side, |
| 13. | the first-born of death consumes his limbs. |
| 14. | Fiery destruction lodges in his tent, and marches him off to the king of terrors. He is plucked from the security of his tent; |
| 15. | over his abode brimstone is scattered. |
| 16. | Below, his roots dry up, and above, his branches wither. |
| 17. | His memory perishes from the land, and he has no name on the earth. |
| 18. | He is driven from light into darkness, and banished out of the world. |
| 19. | He has neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any survior where once he dwelt. |
| 20. | They who come after shall be appalled at his fate; they who went before are struck with horror. |
| 21. | So is it then with the dwelling of the impious man, and such is the place of him who knows not God! |
