Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
How long will ye hunt for words?
Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts,
And are become unclean in your sight?
Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger,
Shall the earth be forsaken for thee?
Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,
And the {Or, flame}spark of his fire shall not shine.
The light shall be dark in his tent,
And his lamp {Or, beside}above him shall be put out.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened,
And his own counsel shall cast him down.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
And he walketh upon the toils.
A gin shall take him by the heel,
And a snare shall lay hold on him.
A noose is hid for him in the ground,
And a trap for him in the way.
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,
And shall chase him at his heels.
His strength shall be hunger-bitten,
And calamity shall be ready {Or, for his halting}at his side.
The {Hebrew: bars of his skin.}members of his body shall be devoured,
Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth;
And {Hebrew: it shall (or, thou shall) bring him.}he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
{Or, It shall dwell in his tent, that it be no more his (or, because it is none of his)}There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his:
Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
His roots shall be dried up beneath,
And above shall his branch {Or, wither}be cut off.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth,
And he shall have no name in the street.
He shall be driven from light into darkness,
And chased out of the world.
He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people,
Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
{Or, They that dwell in the west are…as they that dwell in the east are &c.}They that come after shall be astonished at his day,
As they that went before {Hebrew: laid hold on horror.}were affrighted.
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,
And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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Whose confidence shall {Or, be cut off}break in sunder,And whose trust is a spider's {Hebrew: house.}web.
For {Or, thick darkness is to all of them as the morning; For they &c.}the morning is to all of them as thick darkness;For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail,And {Hebrew: refuge is perished from them.}they shall have no way to flee;And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.
He beholdeth everything that is high:He is king over all the sons of pride.
The wicked shall see it, and be grieved;He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away:The desire of the wicked shall perish.
My heart is sore pained within me:And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness;But the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
The wicked is thrust down in his {Or, calamity}evil-doing;But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:
{Hosea 13:14.}O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?
and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.
The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
and {Or, may}might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.