| 1 | And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, |
| 2 | How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak. |
| 3 | Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight? |
| 4 | Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place? |
| 5 | Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine. |
| 6 | The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out. |
| 7 | The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. |
| 8 | For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes; |
| 9 | The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him; |
| 10 | A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way. |
| 11 | Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps. |
| 12 | His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side. |
| 13 | The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members. |
| 14 | His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors: |
| 15 | They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation: |
| 16 | His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off; |
| 17 | His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds. |
| 18 | He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. |
| 19 | He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn. |
| 20 | They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted. |
| 21 | Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not �God. |