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Bildad Speaks of the Downfall of the Wicked

¹ 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 ^(C1)regarded as beasts,
As dense in your eyes?

⁴ "O ^(F1)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 ^(C1)light of the wicked goes out,
And the ^(F1)flame of his fire gives no light.

⁶ "The light in his tent is ^(C1)darkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.

⁷ "His ^(F1)vigorous stride is shortened,
And his ^(C1)own counsel brings him down.

⁸ "For he is ^(C1)thrown 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 ^(C1)terrors frighten him,
And ^(C2)harass him at every step.

¹² "His vigor is ^(C1)famished,
And disaster is ready at his side.

¹³ "The firstborn of death eats parts of his skin;
It ^(C1)eats parts of him.

¹⁴ "He is ^(C1)torn from ^(F1)the security of his tent,
And ^(F2)they march him in step before the king of ^(C2)terrors.

¹⁵ "^(F1)There dwells in his tent nothing of his;
^(C1)Brimstone is scattered on his abode.

¹⁶ "His ^(C1)roots are dried below,
And his ^(C2)branch is cut off above.

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

¹⁸ "^(F1)He is driven from light ^(C1)into darkness,
And ^(C2)chased from the inhabited world.

¹⁹ "He has neither ^(C1)offspring nor posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

²⁰ "Those ^(F1)in the west are appalled at ^(C1)his ^(F2)fate,
And those ^(F3)in the east are seized with horror.

²¹ "Surely such are the ^(C1)dwellings of the unjust,
And this is the place of him who does not know God."