| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Bildad the Shuhite responded, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"How long will you hunt for words? Show understanding and then we can talk. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Why are we regarded as beasts, As stupid in your eyes? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"O you who tear yourself in your anger-- For your sake is the earth to be abandoned, Or the rock to be moved from its place? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, And the flame of his fire gives no light. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"His vigorous stride is shortened, And his own scheme brings him down. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"A snare seizes him by the heel, And a trap snaps shut on him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"A noose for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the path. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"All around terrors frighten him, And harry him at every step. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"His skin is devoured by disease, The firstborn of death devours his limbs. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"There dwells in his tent nothing of his; Brimstone is scattered on his habitation. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"His roots are dried below, And his branch is cut off above. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"He has no offspring or posterity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Those in the west are appalled at his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God." |
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