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Bildad Speaks of the Wicked

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

² "How long will you hunt for words and continue these speeches?
Do some clear thinking and show understanding and then we can talk.

³ "Why are we ^(C1)regarded as beasts,
As if we are stupid (senseless) in your eyes?

⁴ "You who tear yourself apart in anger,
Is the earth to be abandoned for your sake,
Or the rock to be moved out of its place?

⁵ "Indeed, the ^(C1)light of the wicked will be put out,
And the flame of his fire will not shine. ^(VR1)

⁶ "The light will be ^(C1)dark in his tent,
And his lamp beside him will be put out. ^(VR1)

⁷ "The vigorous stride will be shortened,
And his own counsel and the scheme in which he trusted ^(C1)will bring his downfall.

⁸ "For the wicked is ^(C1)thrown into a net by his own feet (wickedness),
And he steps on the webbing of the lattice-covered pit.

⁹ "A snare catches him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.

¹⁰ "A noose is hidden for him on the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.

¹¹ "^(C1)Terrors frighten him on every side
And ^(C2)chase at his heels.

¹² "The strength of the wicked is ^(C1)famished and weakened,
And disaster is ready at his side if he stops.

¹³ "His skin is devoured by disease;
The firstborn of death the worst of diseases ^(C1)consumes his limbs.

¹⁴ "He is ^(C1)torn from his tent which he trusted for safety,
And he is marched and brought to the king of ^(C2)terrors (death).

¹⁵ "Nothing of his dwells in his tent;
^(C1)Brimstone (burning sulfur) is scattered over his dwelling to purify it.

¹⁶ "The ^(C1)roots of the wicked are dried up below,
And above, his ^(C2)branch is cut off and withers.

¹⁷ "^(C1)Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name on the street.

¹⁸ "He is driven and propelled from light ^(C1)into darkness,
And ^(C2)chased from the inhabited world.

¹⁹ "He has no ^(C1)offspring or prosperity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

²⁰ "Those in the west are astonished and appalled at his ^(C1)fate,
And those in the east are seized with horror.

²¹ "Surely such are the ^(C1)dwellings of the wicked and the ungodly,
And such is the place of him who does not know or recognize or honor God."