Bildad’s Second Speech

18 Then[fn] Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

• 2 [fn] [fn] hunt for words[fn] Consider,[fn] and afterward we shall speak.
• 3  Why are we taken as[fn] stupid in your[fn] eyes?
• 4 You who are tearing[fn] in your[fn] anger, will the earth be forsaken because of you?[fn]
• Or[fn] will the rock be removed from its place?
• 5 [fn] the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine.
• 6  and his lamp above him is put out.
• 7 [fn] are shortened, and his own schemes[fn] throw him down,
• 8 and he walks into a pitfall.
• 9 him by the heel; a snare takes hold of him.
• 10  and his trap on the path.
• 11  and they chase him at his heels.
• 12  and disaster is ready for his stumbling.
• 13  the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
• 14 [fn] and it brought him to the king of terrors.
• 15 [fn] remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.
• 16 [fn] and its branches[fn] wither away above.[fn]
• 17 the earth, and there is not a name for him on the street.
• 18  and they drive him out from the world.
• 19 There is no offspring for him nor[fn] a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.
• 20 Those of the west are appalled over[fn] and those of the east[fn]
• 21 are the dwellings of the godless, and this is the dwelling place of him who knows not God.”