1 Bildad from Shuah said:
2 How long will you talk?Be sensible! Let us speak.
3 Or do you think that weare dumb animals?
4 You cut yourself in anger.Will that shake the earthor even move the rocks?
5-6 The lamps of sinful peoplesoon are snuffed out,leaving their tents dark.
7 Their powerful legs become weak,and they stumble on schemesof their own doing.
8-10 Before they know it,they are trapped in a net,hidden along the path.
11 Terror strikes and pursuesfrom every side.
12 Starving, they run,only to meet disaster,
13 then afterwards to be eaten aliveby death itself.
14 Those sinners are draggedfrom the safety of their tentsto die a gruesome death.
15 Then their tents and possessionsare burnt to ashes,
16 and they are left like trees,dried up from the roots.
17 They are gone and forgotten,
18 thrown far from the lightinto a world of darkness,
19 without any childrento carry on their name.
20 Everyone, from east to west,is overwhelmed with horror.
21 Such is the fate of sinnersand their familieswho don't know God.