| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2How long until you stop talking? Show some sense, and then we can talk. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You who tear yourself in anger-- should the earth be abandoned on your account, or a rock be removed from its place? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him is put out. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7His powerful stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For his own feet lead him into a net, and he strays into its mesh. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9A trap catches him by the heel; a noose seizes him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10A rope lies hidden for him on the ground, and a snare waits for him along the path. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass him at every step. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12His strength is depleted; disaster lies ready for him to stumble. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Parts of his skin are eaten away; death's firstborn consumes his limbs. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He is ripped from the security of his tent and marched away to the king of terrors. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Nothing he owned remains in his tent. Burning sulfur is scattered over his home. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16His roots below dry up, and his branches above wither away. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17All memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name anywhere. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He has no children or descendants among his people, no survivor where he used to live. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Indeed, such is the dwelling of the unjust man, and this is the place of the one who does not know God. |
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