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[1]And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
[2]How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.
[3]Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
[4]Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
[5]Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
[6]The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
[7]The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
[8]For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
[9]The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;
[10]A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.
[11]Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
[12]His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
[13]The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
[14]His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
[15]They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
[16]His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
[17]His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
[18]He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
[19]He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
[20]They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.
[21]Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not ùGod.
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