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Bildad

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

² "When will you end these speeches?
Be sensible, and then we can talk.

³ Why are we regarded as cattle
and considered stupid in your sight?

⁴ You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger,
is the earth to be abandoned for your sake?
Or must the rocks be moved from their place?

⁵ "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out;
the flame of his fire stops burning.

⁶ The light in his tent becomes dark;
the lamp beside him goes out.

⁷ The vigor of his step is weakened;
his own schemes throw him down.

⁸ His feet thrust him into a net
and he wanders into its mesh.

⁹ A trap seizes him by the heel;
a snare holds him fast.

¹⁰ A noose is hidden for him on the ground;
a trap lies in his path.

¹¹ Terrors startle him on every side
and dog his every step.

¹² Calamity is hungry for him;
disaster is ready for him when he falls.

¹³ It eats away parts of his skin;
death's firstborn devours his limbs.

¹⁴ He is torn from the security of his tent
and marched off to the king of terrors.

¹⁵ Fire resides in his tent;
burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.

¹⁶ His roots dry up below
and his branches wither above.

¹⁷ The memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name in the land.

¹⁸ He is driven from light into darkness
and is banished from the world.

¹⁹ He has no offspring or descendants among his people,
no survivor where once he lived.

²⁰ Men of the west are appalled at his fate;
men of the east are seized with horror.

²¹ Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man;
such is the place of one who knows not God."