✧1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ✧2How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. ✧3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile 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? ✧5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. ✧6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. ✧7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. ✧8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. ✧9The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.
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✧10The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
✧11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
✧12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
✧13It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
✧14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
✧15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
✧16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
✧17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
✧18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
✧19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
✧20They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
✧21Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.