Then answered Bildad the Shuĥite, and said,

Then Bildad the Shuchite raised his voice and said:

How long will you make a perversion of words? consider, and afterwards we will speak.

How long will you [(the friends)] put an end to words? [i.e., How long will you interrupt the words of Iyyov?]

Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Why should we be looked upon as beasts? We are obtuse in your eyes.

He tears himself in his anger. Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? or shall the rock be removed out of his place?

[You Iyyov,] who tears his spirit in his anger, shall the [ordinance of the] earth be abandoned for your sake, and the Rock be removed from His place [i.e., from His ordinance]?

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Verily, the light of the wicked will dart away, and the spark of his fire will not light.

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his candle over him shall be put out.

The light of his tent will grow dark, and the light of his lamp will dart away.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

The steps of his might will be constricted, and his counsel will cast him away.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.

For he will be sent into the net with his [own] feet, and he will walk upon the lattice-work [i.e., the net].

The trap shall take him by the heel, and the snare shall prevail against him.

The trap will hold him by the heel, and thirst will grow upon him.

The noose is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

His rope [i.e., the rope which will snare him] is hidden in the ground; his trap lies upon the path.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels:

Around him, demons affright him, and they beat him [down] to his feet.

his first born shall he plagued with hunger, and his wife beset with calamity.

His son will hunger and calamity awaits his wife.

He will devour the limbs of his skin: the firstborn doomed to die will devour his own limbs.

He will consume the branches of his skin [(his other sons and daughters)]. The prince of death will consume his branches.

He shall be cut off from the tent of his security; and shall he brought to the king of terrors.

He will be cut off from his tent [i.e., his wife], who trusts to him, and she will dispatch him to the king of the demons.

In his tent dwells that which is none of his: brimstone is scattered on his habitation.

She will live in his tent [(a widow)] without him, [and, in the end,] his habitation will be overspread with brimstone.

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.

Beneath, his roots [i.e., what took root] will dry up, and above, his boughs will be cut away [(without his deriving any benefit from them)].

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

His remembrance will vanish from the land; he will have no name in the thoroughfares.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

[(From heaven)] they will thrust him from light into darkness, and they will remove him from the world.

He shall have neither son nor offspring among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

There will remain to him neither a son nor a grandson among his people, and no trace [of him will remain] in his dwelling places.

They who come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they who went before were affrighted.

The later ones will be astounded at his day [(of destruction)], and the early ones [(who knew him previously)] will be seized [as with] a tempest.

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who knows not God.

This alone [is the lot of] the abodes of iniquity, and this [is the lot of] the place that G d did not know [i.e., that He rejected].