[1] Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: [2] "How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk. [3] Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight? [4] You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place? [5] "Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine. [6] The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished. [7] His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down. [8] For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh. [9] A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him. [10] A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path. [11] Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step. [12] Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side. [13] It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs. [14] He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors. [15] Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered. [16] Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above. [17] His memory 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 neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed. [20] People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying, [21] 'Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.'"
