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.”