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Bildad Speaks of the Wicked
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite 1Lit answered and saidresponded,
2 “How long will you hunt for words?
Show understanding and then we can talk.
3 “Why are we APs 73:22regarded as beasts,
As stupid in your eyes?
4 “O 1Lit he...tears himself...hisyou 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 “Indeed, the AJob 21:17; Prov 13:9; 20:20; 24:20light of the wicked goes out,
And the 1Lit sparkflame of his fire gives no light.
6 “The light in his tent is AJob 12:25darkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.
7 “His 1Lit steps of his strengthvigorous stride is shortened,
And his AJob 15:6own scheme brings him down.
8 “For he is AJob 22:10; Ps 9:15; 35:8; Is 24:17, 18thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.
9 “A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.
10 “A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.
11 “All around AJob 15:21terrors frighten him,
And BJob 18:18; 20:8harry him at every step.
12 “His strength is AIs 8:21famished,
And calamity is ready at his side.
13 “1Heb It eats parts of his skinHis skin is devoured by disease,
The firstborn of death AZech 14:12devours his 2Or partslimbs.
And 2Or you or she shall marchthey march him before the king of BJob 15:21terrors.
15 “1A suggested reading is Fire dwells in his tentThere dwells in his tent nothing of his;
APs 11:6Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.
16 “His AIs 5:24; Hos 9:16; Amos 2:9; Mal 4:1roots are dried below,
And his BJob 15:30, 32branch is cut off above.
17 “AJob 24:20; Ps 34:16; Prov 10:7Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.
And BJob 20:8; 27:21-23chased from the inhabited world.
19 “He has no AJob 27:14, 15; Is 14:22offspring or posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.
20 “Those 1Lit who come afterin the west are appalled at APs 37:13; Jer 50:27; Obad 12his 2Lit dayfate,
And those 3Lit who have gone beforein the east are seized with horror.
21 “Surely such are the AJob 21:28dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”
118:1 Lit answered and said
118:4 Lit he...tears himself...his
A18:5 Job 21:17; Prov 13:9; 20:20; 24:20
118:5 Lit spark
118:7 Lit steps of his strength
A18:8 Job 22:10; Ps 9:15; 35:8; Is 24:17, 18
118:13 Heb It eats parts of his skin
218:13 Or parts
118:14 Lit his tent his trust
218:14 Or you or she shall march
118:15 A suggested reading is Fire dwells in his tent
A18:16 Is 5:24; Hos 9:16; Amos 2:9; Mal 4:1
B18:16 Job 15:30, 32
A18:17 Job 24:20; Ps 34:16; Prov 10:7
118:18 Lit They drive him...And chase him
A18:19 Job 27:14, 15; Is 14:22
118:20 Lit who come after
A18:20 Ps 37:13; Jer 50:27; Obad 12
218:20 Lit day
318:20 Lit who have gone before