Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked 1 UDB Then Bildad replied again: BSB BSB: Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 UDB "Please stop talking! If you would stop talking and listen, we could tell you something. BSB BSB: “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
3 UDB Why do you think that we are as stupid as cattle and as unrighteous? BSB BSB: Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
4 UDB By being very angry, you are only hurting yourself. Do you think that everyone on the earth must leave to prove that you are right, or do you think that God must move the rocks in the mountains to please you? 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 UDB What will happen is that the lives of wicked people like you end as quickly as we can put out a light or extinguish the flame of a fire. BSB BSB: Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
6 UDB When the lamps above them in their tents are extinguished, there will be no light in those tents. BSB BSB: The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
7 UDB While they are alive, they walk confidently, but later it will be as though they stumbled and fell, because they themselves do not pay attention to the advice that they give to others. BSB BSB: His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
8 UDB It will be as though they had walked into their own net or had fallen into a pit that they themselves dug. BSB BSB: For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
9 UDB It will be as though a trap had grabbed their heels and held them fast, BSB BSB: A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.
10 UDB as though the end of a rope that was hidden on the ground had sprung up and seized them when they walked on it. BSB BSB: A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.
11 UDB Everywhere they go, there will be things that cause them to be terrified; it will be as though those things were pursuing them and biting at their heels. BSB BSB: Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
12 UDB They will become hungry, with the result that they will be strong no longer. They will continually experience disasters. BSB BSB: His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
13 UDB Diseases will spread all over their skin; diseases will cause their bodies to decay. BSB BSB: It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
14 UDB When they die, they will be snatched away from their tents and brought to the one who rules over the dead. BSB BSB: He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
15 UDB Then other people will live in their tents, but only after they sprinkle sulfur on those tents to get rid of the disease! BSB BSB: Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
16 UDB Because they will die and leave no descendants, they will be like trees whose roots have dried up and whose branches have all withered. BSB BSB: The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
17 UDB No one on the earth will remember them anymore; no one on any street will even remember their names. BSB BSB: The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
18 UDB They will have to leave the earth, where there is light, and rush into the place where it is dark. BSB BSB: He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
19 UDB They will have no children or grandchildren, no descendants where they will have previously lived. BSB BSB: He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
20 UDB People from the east to the west who hear about what happened to them, everyone, will be shocked and horrified. BSB BSB: Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
21 UDB This is what happens to unrighteous people like you, people who do not know God." BSB BSB: Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
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