Young's Literal Translation YLT
Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
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Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
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How long until you stop talking? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
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Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
4 (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
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You who tear yourself in anger- should the earth be abandoned on your account, or a rock be removed from its place?
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
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Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
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The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him is put out.
7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
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His powerful stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
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For his own feet lead him into a net, and he strays into its mesh.
9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
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A trap catches [him] by the heel; a noose seizes him.
10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
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A rope lies hidden for him on the ground, and a snare [waits] for him along the path.
11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.
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Terrors frighten him on every side and harass him at every step.
12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
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His strength is depleted; disaster lies ready for him to stumble.
13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
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Parts of his skin are eaten away; death's firstborn consumes his limbs.
14 Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
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He is ripped from the security of his tent and marched away to the king of terrors.
15 It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
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Nothing he owned remains in his tent. Burning sulfur is scattered over his home.
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
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His roots below dry up, and his branches above wither away.
17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
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[All] memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name abroad.
18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
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He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.
19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
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He has no children or descendants among his people, no survivor where he used to live.
20 At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
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Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
21 Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
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Indeed, such is the dwelling of the wicked, and this is the place of the one who does not know God.
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