Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
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How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And reputed dull in your sight?
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Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? .
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp over him shall be put out.
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The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
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A gin shall take him by the heel, And a snare shall lay hold on him.
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A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.
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Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, And shall entrap him at his feet.
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His trouble shall be ravenous, And calamity shall be ready for his fall.
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It shall devour the members of his body, Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
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That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
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There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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His roots shall dry up beneath, And above shall his branch wither.
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name abroad.
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He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
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He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before are affrighted.
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Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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