[1] Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: [2] "How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer! [3] Do you think we are mere animals? Do you think we are stupid? [4] You may tear out your hair in anger, but will that destroy the earth? Will it make the rocks tremble? [5] "Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. The sparks of their fire will not glow. [6] The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched. [7] The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall. [8] The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit. [9] A trap grabs them by the heel. A snare holds them tight. [10] A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path. [11] "Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step. [12] Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble. [13] Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs. [14] They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors. [15] The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses. [16] Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither. [17] All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names. [18] They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world. [19] They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived. [20] People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified. [21] They will say, 'This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.'"
