1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said

1  But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying

2  How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

2  How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

3  Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?

3  For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

3  Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?

4  Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

4  Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

4  You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?

5  Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

5  But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

5  Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?

6  The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.

6  Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.

7  The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

7  Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive him.

7  His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.

8  For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.

8  His foot also has been caught in a snare, and let it be entangled in a net.

8  For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.

9  A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.

9  And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

9  His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.

10  A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

10  His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

10  A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.

11  Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.

11  Let pains destroy him round about, and let many enemies come about him,

11  Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.

12  His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.

12  vex him with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

12  Let famine be his grief, let destruction be ready for his posterity.

13  It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

13  Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.

13  Let force devour his towns, let his first-born die in violence.

14  That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

14  And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

15  There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

15  It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

15  Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.

16  His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.

16  Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.

17  His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad.

17  Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

17  Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.

18  He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

18  Let one drive him from light into darkness.

18  He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.

19  He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

19  Neither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.

20  They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.

20  But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

20  The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.

21  Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

21  These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

21  And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.