Bildad’s reply “How long?” will you prolong the discussion?

Consider Be silent to understand and to hear what we will speak.

and reputed dull in your sight Heb. נטמינו. We are considered in your eyes as stopped up. The word has no radical besides the “teth” “mem,” like טַמוֹנוּן פְלִשְתָּאֵי, which is the Aramaic translation of סִתְּמוּם פלשתים “the Philistines stopped them up” (Gen. 26:15). Some explain [this] as an expression of hiding (טמינה), but they are in error, because were that the case, the word would require two “nun”s, one for the radical and one for the plural suffix.

One who destroys his soul He turns to Job, “To you I say, the one who destroys his soul in his anger and in his wrath.”

for your sake For the sake of your innocence shall the earth be abandoned by its standard of justice?

and shall the Rock be removed The Creator. from His place From His knowledge and from His nature.

Yea Even now, according to your cry, this will be in force for generations.

the light of the wicked shall be put out it shall spring from its place. spark Etinceler in French.

shall be straitened They shall be short. The steps of The steps of his strength.

shall cast him down His counsel that he advised, which will not be fulfilled [will cast him down].

For his end will be that... he shall be sent into a net His feet will be sent to step on a net and be caught.

and he shall walk on the toils Heb. שבכה. Every שבכה is made like a net, and that is the coif that is on the head of women.

shall seize A trap shall seize him by the heel.

hidden...in the ground under his feet.

A noose...for him The rope of his trap, with which he will be caught.

and a trap for him is hidden on the path just as they hide the noose of the trap for birds.

terrors Demons.

and beat him off his fee They knock him down to the ground.

His son Heb. אֹנוֹ, lit, his strength.

for his wife Heb. לצלעוֹ lit. his rib [alluding to Eve].

He shall eat the branches of his body And he shall devour all the rest of his branches, viz. his sons and daughters.

the prince of death Heb. בכור מות, as in (Ps. 89:28), “Also I will make him a prince (בכור).”

He shall be torn away from his wife Heb. מאהלו, lit. from his tent.

who trusted him Heb. מבטחו, his trust, who trusted him. (His trust), that she trusted him.

she will cause him to walk. yet she will cause him to walk and will send him away (from her) to the grave, to the king of the demons.

She shall dwell in his tent as a widow.

not being his (that she will not be his) because he is dead, and ultimately brimstone shall be scattered on his dwelling.

They shall drive him from heaven.

grandson Heb. נכד, a son of the son.

the later people They wondered when they heard of the misfortune that befell him.

quaking Heb. שָׂעַר, tempest. This cannot be of the form of שֵׂעָר, hair, because the accent in שָׂעַר is not (on the “sin,” but on the “ayin,”) and it is not converted to a “kamatz” when it is cantillated with an “ethnachta” or a “sof pasuk.” I did not hear this.

These are only the dwellings of the unrighteous This is their fate.