Then Bildad the Shuhite
1responded
,
"How long
will you hunt
for words
? Show
understanding
and then
we can talk
.
"Why are we aregarded
as beasts
, As stupid
in your eyes
?
"O 1you who tear yourself
in your anger
-- For your sake
is the earth
to be abandoned
, Or the rock
to be moved
from its place
?
"Indeed, the alight
of the wicked
goes
out, And the 1flame
of his fire
gives
no
light
.
"The light in his tent
is adarkened
, And his lamp
goes
out above
him.
"His 1vigorous stride
is shortened
, And his aown scheme
brings
him down
.
"For he is athrown into the net
by his own feet
, And he steps
on the webbing
.
"A snare seizes
him by the heel
, And a trap
snaps
shut
on him.
"A noose for him is hidden
in the ground
, And a trap
for him on the path
.
"All around
aterrors
frighten
him, And bharry
him at every step
.
"His strength is afamished
, And calamity
is ready
at his side
.
" 1His skin is devoured
by disease
, The firstborn
of death
adevours
his 2limbs
.
"He is atorn from 1the security
of his tent
, And 2they march
him before the king
of bterrors
.
" 1There dwells in his tent
nothing
of his; aBrimstone
is scattered
on his habitation
.
"His aroots are dried
below
, And his bbranch
is cut
off
above
.
" aMemory of him perishes
from the earth
, And he has no
name
abroad
.
" 1He is driven from light
ainto darkness
, And bchased
from the inhabited
world
.
"He has no aoffspring
or posterity
among his people
, Nor
any survivor
where
he sojourned
.
"Those 1in the west are appalled
at ahis 2fate
, And those 3in the east
are seized
with horror
.
"Surely such
are the adwellings
of the wicked
, And this
is the place
of him who does not know
God
."