| King James Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, | 1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: |
| 2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. | 2How long until you stop talking? Show some sense, and then we can talk. |
| 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? | 3Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight? |
| 4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? | 4You who tear yourself in anger-- should the earth be abandoned on your account, or a rock be removed from its place? |
| 5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. | 5Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. |
| 6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. | 6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him is put out. |
| 7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. | 7His powerful stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up. |
| 8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. | 8For his own feet lead him into a net, and he strays into its mesh. |
| 9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. | 9A trap catches him by the heel; a noose seizes him. |
| 10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. | 10A rope lies hidden for him on the ground, and a snare waits for him along the path. |
| 11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. | 11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass him at every step. |
| 12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. | 12His strength is depleted; disaster lies ready for him to stumble. |
| 13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. | 13Parts of his skin are eaten away; death's firstborn consumes his limbs. |
| 14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. | 14He is ripped from the security of his tent and marched away to the king of terrors. |
| 15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. | 15Nothing he owned remains in his tent. Burning sulfur is scattered over his home. |
| 16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. | 16His roots below dry up, and his branches above wither away. |
| 17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. | 17All memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name anywhere. |
| 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. | 18He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world. |
| 19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. | 19He has no children or descendants among his people, no survivor where he used to live. |
| 20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. | 20Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror. |
| 21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. | 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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