Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked 1 Brenton Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 Brenton How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak. BSB BSB: “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
3 Brenton For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes? BSB BSB: Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
4 Brenton Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations? BSB BSB: You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
5 Brenton But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up. BSB BSB: Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
6 Brenton His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him. BSB BSB: The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
7 Brenton Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive him . BSB BSB: His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
8 Brenton His foot also has been caught in a snare, and let it be entangled in a net. BSB BSB: For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
9 Brenton And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction. BSB BSB: A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.
10 Brenton His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path. BSB BSB: A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.
11 Brenton Let pains destroy him round about, and let many enemies come about him, BSB BSB: Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
12 Brenton vex him with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.BSB BSB: His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
13 Brenton Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty. BSB BSB: It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
14 Brenton And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king. BSB BSB: He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
15 Brenton It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone. BSB BSB: Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
16 Brenton His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above. BSB BSB: The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
17 Brenton Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out. BSB BSB: The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
18 Brenton Let one drive him from light into darkness. BSB BSB: He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
19 Brenton He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth. BSB BSB: He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
20 Brenton But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first. BSB BSB: Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
21 Brenton These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord. BSB BSB: Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
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