Skip to content- 1Verse 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
- 2Verse 2. “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
- 3Verse 3. Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
- 4Verse 4. You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
- 5Verse 5. Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- 6Verse 6. The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
- 7Verse 7. His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
- 8Verse 8. For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
- 9Verse 9. A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.
- 10Verse 10. A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.
- 11Verse 11. Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
- 12Verse 12. His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
- 13Verse 13. It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
- 14Verse 14. He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
- 15Verse 15. Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
- 16Verse 16. The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
- 17Verse 17. The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
- 18Verse 18. He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- 19Verse 19. He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
- 20Verse 20. Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
- 21Verse 21. Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”