| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Do you think we are mere animals? Do you think we are stupid? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You may tear out your hair in anger, but will that destroy the earth? Will it make the rocks tremble? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. The sparks of their fire will not glow. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9A trap grabs them by the heel. A snare holds them tight. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11“Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.’” |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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