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[1]THEN Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,
[2]How long will you resist words? Understand! and afterwards we will speak.
[3]Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and have become abominable in your sight? O you who slays himself in his anger?
[4]Shall the earth be forsaken for your sake? And shall the mountain be removed out of its place
[5]Yea, the lamp of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
[6]The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be extinguished.
[7]He shall be deserted in his illness, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
[8]For he has stretched out his feet into the net, and lie walks upon a snare.
[9]The trap seizes him by the heel, and thirst shall prevail against him.
[10]A snare is laid for him on the ground, and a trap for him in his paths
[11]Terror shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
[12]Let famine be his grief, let destruction be ready for his posterity.
[13]Let force devour his towns, let his first-born die in violence.
[14]His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and he shall be brought hastily by the king's executioner.
[15]Others shall dwell in his tent, because there is no one in it; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
[16]His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his vintage be cut off.
[17]His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name upon it.
[18]He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
[19]He shall neither have name nor remembrance among the people, nor any survivor in his dwelling place.
[20]They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were terrified.
[21]Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked, and this is the place of him who knows not God
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