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| [1]Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
[1]And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: -- |
| [2]When will ye make an end of your words? Cause us to understand, and then we will speak. |
[2]When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak. |
| [3]Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and are vile in your sight? |
[3]Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes! |
| [4]Thou art as one that teareth his soul in his anger. Shall the earth be forsaken for thy sake? Or the rock removed out of his place? |
[4](He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place? |
| [5]Yea, the light of the wicked shall be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. |
[5]Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. |
| [6]The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him. |
[6]The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished. |
| [7]The steps of his strength shall be restrained, and his own counsel shall cast him down. |
[7]Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel. |
| [8]For he is taken in the net by his feet, and he walketh upon the snares. |
[8]For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. |
| [9]The grenne shall take him by the heel, and the thief shall come upon him. |
[9]Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing. |
| [10]A snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. |
[10]Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path. |
| [11]Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. |
[11]Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet. |
| [12]His strength shall be famine: and destruction shall be ready at his side. |
[12]Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side. |
| [13]It shall devour the inner parts of his skin, and the first born of death shall devour his strength. |
[13]It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born. |
| [14]His hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the king of fear. |
[14]Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors. |
| [15]Fear shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. |
[15]It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur. |
| [16]His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut down. |
[16]From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. |
| [17]His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. |
[17]His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. |
| [18]They shall drive him out of the light unto darkness, and chase him out of the world. |
[18]They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out. |
| [19]He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any posterity in his dwellings. |
[19]He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings. |
| [20]The posterity shall be astonied at his day, and fear shall come upon the ancient. |
[20]At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright. |
| [21]Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. |
[21]Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known. |