Dual Panel1THEN BILDAD the Shuhite answered,
2How long will you lay snares for words {and} have to hunt for your argument? Do some clear thinking, and then we will reply.
3Why are we counted as beasts [as if we had no sense]? Why are we unclean in your sight?
4You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
5Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp beside him shall be put out.
7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel {and} the plans in which he trusted shall bring about his downfall.
8For the wicked is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a lattice-covered pit.
9A trap will catch him by the heel, and a snare will lay hold on him.
10A noose is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him in the way.
11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side and shall chase him at his heels.
12The strength [of the wicked] shall be hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side [if he halts].
13By disease his strength {and} his skin shall be devoured; the firstborn of death [the worst of diseases] shall consume his limbs.
14He shall be rooted out of his dwelling place in which he trusted, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors [death].
15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his [family]; sulphur shall be scattered over his dwelling [to purify it after his going].
16The roots [of the wicked] shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off {and} wither.
17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18He shall be thrust from light into darkness and driven out of the world.
19He shall neither have son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.
20They [of the west] that come after [the wicked man] shall be astonished {and} appalled at his day, as they [of the east] that went before were seized with horror.
21Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, and such is the place of him who knows not (recognizes not and honors not) God.