^{1 Ref} Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

^{2 Ref} How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

^{3 Ref} Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

^{4 Ref} He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

^{5 Ref} Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

^{6 Ref} The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

^{7 Ref} The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

^{8 Ref} For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

^{9 Ref} The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

^{10 Ref} The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

^{11 Ref} Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

^{12 Ref} His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

^{13 Ref} It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

^{14 Ref} His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

^{15 Ref} It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

^{16 Ref} His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

^{17 Ref} His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

^{18 Ref} He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

^{19 Ref} He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

^{20 Ref} They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

^{21 Ref} Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.