Dual Panel1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2How soon will you bridle your tongue? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
3What do you mean by treating us as no more than cattle? Are we nothing but brute beasts to you?
4Is the earth to be deserted to prove you right, or the rocks to be moved from their place?
5No, it is the evildoer whose light is extinguished, from whose fire no flame will rekindle;
6the light in his tent fades, his lamp beside him dies down.
7His vigorous stride is shortened, and he is tripped by his own policy;
8he rushes headlong into a net and his feet are entangled in its meshes;
9his heel is caught in a snare, the thong grips him tightly;
10a noose lies hidden for him in the ground and a trap in his path.
11Terror of death suddenly besets him so that he cannot hold back his urine.
12For all his vigour he is paralysed with fear; strong as he is, disaster awaits him.
13Disease eats away his skin, death's firstborn devours his limbs.
14He is plucked from the safety of his home, and death's terrors escort him to their king.
15Fire settles on his tent, and brimstone is strewn over his dwelling.
16His roots beneath dry up, and above, his branches wither.
17All memory of him vanishes from the earth and he leaves no name in the inhabited world.
18He is thrust out from light into darkness and banished from the land of the living.
19He leaves no issue or offspring among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
20In the west people are appalled at his end; in the east they shudder with horror.
21Such is the fate of the dwellings of evildoers, of the homes of those who care nothing for God.