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¹ And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:² "When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.³ Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!⁴ He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?

⁵ Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.⁶ The light has been dark in his tent, || And his lamp over him is extinguished.⁷ The steps of his strength are restricted, || And his own counsel casts him down.⁸ For he is sent into a net by his own feet, || And he habitually walks on a snare.⁹ A trap seizes on the heel, || The designing prevails over him.¹⁰ His cord is hidden in the earth, || And his trap on the path.

¹¹ Terrors have terrified him all around, || And they have scattered him—at his feet.¹² His sorrow is hungry, || And calamity is ready at his side.¹³ It consumes the parts of his skin, || Death's firstborn consumes his parts.¹⁴ His confidence is drawn from his tent, || And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.¹⁵ It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, || Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.¹⁶ From beneath his roots are dried up, || And from above his crop is cut off.¹⁷ His memorial has perished from the land, || And he has no name on the street.¹⁸ They thrust him from light to darkness, || And cast him out from the habitable earth.¹⁹ He has no continuator, || Nor successor among his people, || And none is remaining in his dwellings.²⁰ At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, || And those [in the] east have taken fright.²¹ Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, || And this [is] the place God has not known."