^1. Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

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

^3. Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?

^4. You 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. "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

^14. He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

^15. Fire resides [1] in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.

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

^17. The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.

^18. He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

^19. He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.

^20. Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror.

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