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1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

1Bildad from Shuah replied, saying:

2“How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer!

2"When are you going to stop your word hunt? Think first, and then we can talk.

3Do you think we are mere animals? Do you think we are stupid?

3Why do you think we're like dumb animals? Do you think we're stupid?

4You may tear out your hair in anger, but will that destroy the earth? Will it make the rocks tremble?

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?"

5“Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. The sparks of their fire will not glow.

5"Indeed, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame from his fire doesn't shine.

6The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.

6Light in his tent is dark, and his lamp goes out above him.

7The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall.

7His strong steps are restricted, and his own advice trips him up.

8The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit.

8"For he has stumbled into a net with his own feet; he walked right into the network!

9A trap grabs them by the heel. A snare holds them tight.

9The trap seizes him by the heel; a snare tightens its hold on him.

10A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path.

10A rope lies hidden in the dirt; a trap lies waiting for him where he is walking."

11“Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step.

11"He is petrified by terror that surrounds him on all sides; they chase at his heels.

12Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble.

12He is starved for strength; and is ripe for a fall.

13Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs.

13Something gnaws on his skin; a deadly disease consumes his limbs.

14They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors.

14Torn from the security of his home, he is brought before the king of terrors.

15The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses.

15"There's nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place.

16Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.

16His roots wither underneath, while his branches above are being cut off.

17All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names.

17No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor.

18They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world.

18He is driven away from light to darkness, made to wander the landscape.

19They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived.

19He has no children or descendants within his own people; and no survivors where he once lived.

20People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified.

20People who live west of him are appalled at his fate; those who live east of him are seized with terror.

21They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.’”

21Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don't know God."