New Living Translation NLT
The Message Bible MSG
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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Bildad from Shuhah chimed in:
2 “How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer!
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"How monotonous these word games are getting! Get serious! We need to get down to business.
3 Do you think we are mere animals? Do you think we are stupid?
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Why do you treat your friends like slow-witted animals? You look down on us as if we don't know anything.
4 You may tear out your hair in anger, but will that destroy the earth? Will it make the rocks tremble?
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Why are you working yourself up like this? Do you want the world redesigned to suit you? Should reality be suspended to accommodate you?
5 “Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. The sparks of their fire will not glow.
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"Here's the rule: The light of the wicked is put out. Their flame dies down and is extinguished.
6 The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.
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Their house goes dark - every lamp in the place goes out.
7 The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall.
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Their strong strides weaken, falter; they stumble into their own traps.
8 The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit.
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They get all tangled up in their own red tape,
9 A trap grabs them by the heel. A snare holds them tight.
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Their feet are grabbed and caught, their necks in a noose.
10 A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path.
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They trip on ropes they've hidden, and fall into pits they've dug themselves.
11 “Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step.
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Terrors come at them from all sides. They run helter-skelter.
12 Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble.
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The hungry grave is ready to gobble them up for supper,
13 Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs.
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To lay them out for a gourmet meal, a treat for ravenous Death.
14 They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors.
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They are snatched from their home sweet home and marched straight to the death house.
15 The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses.
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Their lives go up in smoke; acid rain soaks their ruins.
16 Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.
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Their roots rot and their branches wither.
17 All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names.
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They'll never again be remembered - nameless in unmarked graves.
18 They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world.
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They are plunged from light into darkness, banished from the world.
19 They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived.
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And they leave empty-handed - not one single child - nothing to show for their life on this earth.
20 People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified.
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Westerners are aghast at their fate, easterners are horrified:
21 They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.’”
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'Oh no! So this is what happens to perverse people. This is how the God-ignorant end up!'"
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Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.