^{1 Ref} And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

^{2 Ref} When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

^{3 Ref} Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

^{4 Ref} (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

^{5 Ref} Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

^{6 Ref} The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

^{7 Ref} Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

^{8 Ref} For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

^{9 Ref} Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.

^{10 Ref} Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

^{11 Ref} Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.

^{12 Ref} Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

^{13 Ref} It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.

^{14 Ref} Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

^{15 Ref} It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.

^{16 Ref} From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

^{17 Ref} His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.

^{18 Ref} They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

^{19 Ref} He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.

^{20 Ref} At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.

^{21 Ref} Only these `are' tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.