1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
said,
2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and
afterwards we will speak.
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed
vile in your sight?
4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken
for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark
of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle
shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own
counsel shall cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh
upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the
robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap
for him in the way.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive
him to his feet.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready
at his side.
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the
firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it
shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none
of his: brimstone shall be scattered 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 in the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out
of the world.
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor
any remaining in his dwellings.
20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they
that went before were affrighted.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the
place of him that knoweth
not God.
