Bildad Speaks of the Downfall of the Wicked
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 “How long until you put an end to your words?
Show understanding and then we can talk.
3 Why are we aregarded as beasts,
As dense in your eyes?
4 O you who tear yourself in your anger—
For your sake is the earth to be forsaken,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?
5 “Indeed, the alight of the wicked goes out,
And the flame of his fire gives no light.
6 The light in his tent is adarkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.
7 His vigorous stride is shortened,
And his aown counsel brings him down.
8 For he is athrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the netting.
9 A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a device snaps shut on him.
10 A rope for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.
11 All around aterrors frighten him,
And bharass him at every step.
12 His vigor is afamished,
And disaster is ready at his side.
13 The firstborn of death eats parts of his skin;
It aeats parts of him.
14 He is atorn from the security of his tent,
And they march him in step before the king of bterrors.
15 There dwells in his tent nothing of his;
aBrimstone is scattered on his abode.
16 His aroots are dried below,
And his bbranch is cut off above.
17 aMemory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.
18 He is driven from light ainto darkness,
And bchased from the inhabited world.
19 He has neither aoffspring nor posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.
20 Those in the west are appalled at ahis fate,
And those in the east are seized with horror.
21 Surely such are the adwellings of the unjust,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”