| New Living Translation | NET Bible |
| 1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: | 1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: |
| 2“How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer! | 2"How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk. |
| 3Do you think we are mere animals? Do you think we are stupid? | 3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight? |
| 4You may tear out your hair in anger, but will that destroy the earth? Will it make the rocks tremble? | 4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a 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"Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine. |
| 6The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched. | 6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished. |
| 7The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall. | 7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down. |
| 8The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit. | 8For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh. |
| 9A trap grabs them by the heel. A snare holds them tight. | 9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him. |
| 10A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path. | 10A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path. |
| 11“Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step. | 11Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step. |
| 12Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble. | 12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side. |
| 13Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs. | 13It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs. |
| 14They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors. | 14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors. |
| 15The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses. | 15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered. |
| 16Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither. | 16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above. |
| 17All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names. | 17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land. |
| 18They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world. | 18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world. |
| 19They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived. | 19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed. |
| 20People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified. | 20People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying, |
| 21They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.’” | 21Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.'" |
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