Round Two: Bildad's Speech:
Job, you are wicked!
181Bildad the Shuhite responded:
2How much longer are all of you going to keep hunting for words?[] Come to your senses! Then we can talk.
3Why are we considered to be like cattle?
Why are we regarded as unreasoning animals in your eyes?
4You, who tear yourself to pieces with your anger,
do you expect the earth to be made desolate for your sake?
Should rocks be moved from their place for you?
5The light of the wicked has been extinguished,
and not a spark of his flame still shines.
6In his tent, light becomes darkness
when the lamp beside him goes out.
7His powerful strides are tangled up,
and his own plans bring him down.
8Yes, his feet are caught in a net,
and he stumbles into its webbing.
9A trap snaps at his heel,
and a snare catches him firmly.
10A noose lies hidden on the ground for him.
A trap is set on his path.
11Terrors frighten him on every side.
They harass him at every step.
12His strength is eaten away by hunger,[] and disaster is waiting for him to stumble.
13It eats away pieces of his skin.
Death's firstborn child eats away pieces of him.
14He is torn away from the safety of his tent.
He is marched off to the king of terrors.
15Nothing that belonged to him remains in his tent.[] Sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
16His roots dry up below,
and his branches wither above.
17All memory of him perishes from the earth.
No one on the street remembers his name.
18He is pushed away from the light into the darkness.
He is chased out of the world.
19He has no posterity or descendants among his people.
He leaves no survivor in his place, where he lived as an alien.
20People in the west shudder at his fate.
People in the east are overcome with horror.
21Certainly this is the dwelling place for an evil man.
This is the place for one who does not acknowledge God.
