| King James Bible | New International Version |
| 1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, | 1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: |
| 2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. | 2"When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk. |
| 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? | 3Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight? |
| 4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his 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? |
| 5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. | 5"The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning. |
| 6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. | 6The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out. |
| 7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. | 7The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down. |
| 8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. | 8His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh. |
| 9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. | 9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast. |
| 10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. | 10A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path. |
| 11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. | 11Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step. |
| 12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. | 12Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls. |
| 13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. | 13It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs. |
| 14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. | 14He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors. |
| 15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. | 15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling. |
| 16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. | 16His roots dry up below and his branches wither above. |
| 17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. | 17The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land. |
| 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. | 18He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world. |
| 19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. | 19He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived. |
| 20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. | 20People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror. |
| 21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not 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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