¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

²“How long will it be

Before you make an end of such words?

First gain understanding,

And afterwards, we will speak.

³Why are we counted as cattle?

Why are we defiled in your eyes?

⁴You are the one who tears himself apart in his anger.

Should the earth be forsaken for your sake?

– Or a rock be removed from its place?

⁵Truly, the light of the wicked will be extinguished,

And no flame of such a one's fire will shine.

⁶Light will become darkness in his tent,

And his lamp will be extinguished over him.

⁷His iniquitous steps will be repressed,

And his own counsel will cast him down.

⁸For he is hurled into a net by his own feet,

And he will walk into an entanglement.

⁹A snare will seize him by the heel;

A noose around him will hold him fast.

¹⁰The tripwire for him is hidden on the ground,

As is a trap for him on the pathway.

¹¹Terrors frighten him round about

And chase him around at his feet.

¹²Let his strength be exhausted

And destruction be prepared at his side.

¹³It will consume the fabric of his skin;

The firstborn of death will consume his members.

¹⁴His confidence will be plucked away from his tent,

And you will march him up to the king of terrors.

¹⁵Terror will dwell in his tent

Without him being able to do anything about it.

Sulphur will be scattered on his home.

¹⁶His roots will dry up below,

And his branches will be cut off above.

¹⁷The memory of him will perish from the land,

And he will have no reputation abroad.

¹⁸He will be driven from light to darkness;

He will be chased out of the world.

¹⁹He will have no posterity or progeny among his people,

And no survivor in his dwellings.

²⁰Those who come afterwards

Will be astonished at his fate,

Just as those who come before it

Will have taken fright at it.

²¹But these are the dwellings of the unjust,

And this is the place of him

Who does not know God.”