[1] And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says: [2] “When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak. [3] Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes! [4] He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place? [5] Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire. [6] The light has been dark in his tent, || And his lamp over him is extinguished. [7] The steps of his strength are restricted, || And his own counsel casts him down. [8] For he is sent into a net by his own feet, || And he habitually walks on a snare. [9] A trap seizes on the heel, || The designing prevails over him. [10] His cord is hidden in the earth, || And his trap on the path. [11] Terrors have terrified him all around, || And they have scattered him—at his feet. [12] His sorrow is hungry, || And calamity is ready at his side. [13] It consumes the parts of his skin, || Death’s firstborn consumes his parts. [14] His confidence is drawn from his tent, || And it causes him to step to the king of terrors. [15] It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, || Sulfur is scattered over his habitation. [16] From beneath his roots are dried up, || And from above his crop is cut off. [17] His memorial has perished from the land, || And he has no name on the street. [18] They thrust him from light to darkness, || And cast him out from the habitable earth. [19] He has no continuator, || Nor successor among his people, || And none is remaining in his dwellings. [20] At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, || And those [in the] east have taken fright. [21] Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, || And this [is] the place God has not known.”
