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1Bildad from Shuah replied, saying: | 1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: |
2"When are you going to stop your word hunt? Think first, and then we can talk. | 2"When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk. |
3Why do you think we're like dumb animals? Do you think we're stupid? | 3Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight? |
4You're tearing yourself to pieces in your anger. Will the land be abandoned because of you, or the rock be moved from its place?" | 4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place? |
5"Indeed, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame from his fire doesn't shine. | 5"The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning. |
6Light in his tent is dark, and his lamp goes out above him. | 6The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out. |
7His strong steps are restricted, and his own advice trips him up. | 7The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down. |
8"For he has stumbled into a net with his own feet; he walked right into the network! | 8His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh. |
9The trap seizes him by the heel; a snare tightens its hold on him. | 9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast. |
10A rope lies hidden in the dirt; a trap lies waiting for him where he is walking." | 10A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path. |
11"He is petrified by terror that surrounds him on all sides; they chase at his heels. | 11Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step. |
12He is starved for strength; and is ripe for a fall. | 12Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls. |
13Something gnaws on his skin; a deadly disease consumes his limbs. | 13It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs. |
14Torn from the security of his home, he is brought before the king of terrors. | 14He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors. |
15"There's nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place. | 15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling. |
16His roots wither underneath, while his branches above are being cut off. | 16His roots dry up below and his branches wither above. |
17No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor. | 17The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land. |
18He is driven away from light to darkness, made to wander the landscape. | 18He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world. |
19He has no children or descendants within his own people; and no survivors where he once lived. | 19He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived. |
20People who live west of him are appalled at his fate; those who live east of him are seized with terror. | 20People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror. |
21Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don't know God." | 21Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God." |
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