Young's Literal Translation YLT
New International Version NIV
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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“When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, 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 and considered 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 to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?
5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
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“The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
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 becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
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The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
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His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.
9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
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A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
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A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.
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Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
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Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
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It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours 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 torn from the security of his tent and marched off 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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Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
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His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
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The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
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 into the realm of darkness and is banished from the 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 offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
20 At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
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People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror.
21 Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
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Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God.”
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