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1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

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

2"When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.

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

3Why are we regarded as cattle 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, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?

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

5"The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.

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

6The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.

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

7The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.

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

8His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.

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

9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.

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

10A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.

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

11Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.

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

12Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.

13Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs.

13It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs.

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

14He is torn 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; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.

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

16His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.

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

17The memory of him 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 the realm of 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 no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.

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

20People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror.

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

21Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God."