| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, | 1Bildad from Shuah replied, saying: |
| 2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. | 2"When are you going to stop your word hunt? Think first, and then we can talk. |
| 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? | 3Why do you think we're like dumb animals? Do you think we're stupid? |
| 4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? | 4You're tearing yourself to pieces in your anger. Will the land be abandoned because of you, or the rock be moved from its place?" |
| 5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. | 5"Indeed, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame from his fire doesn't shine. |
| 6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. | 6Light in his tent is dark, and his lamp goes out above him. |
| 7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. | 7His strong steps are restricted, and his own advice trips him up. |
| 8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. | 8"For he has stumbled into a net with his own feet; he walked right into the network! |
| 9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. | 9The trap seizes him by the heel; a snare tightens its hold on him. |
| 10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. | 10A rope lies hidden in the dirt; a trap lies waiting for him where he is walking." |
| 11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. | 11"He is petrified by terror that surrounds him on all sides; they chase at his heels. |
| 12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. | 12He is starved for strength; and is ripe for a fall. |
| 13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. | 13Something gnaws on his skin; a deadly disease consumes his limbs. |
| 14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. | 14Torn from the security of his home, he is brought before the king of terrors. |
| 15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. | 15"There's nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place. |
| 16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. | 16His roots wither underneath, while his branches above are being cut off. |
| 17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. | 17No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor. |
| 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. | 18He is driven away from light to darkness, made to wander the landscape. |
| 19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. | 19He has no children or descendants within his own people; and no survivors where he once lived. |
| 20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. | 20People who live west of him are appalled at his fate; those who live east of him are seized with terror. |
| 21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. | 21Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don't know God." |
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