Bildad describes the sad fate of the wicked, whose light is put out and whose memory perishes, and says this is the place of those who do not know God.
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite , and said ,
2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words ? mark , and afterwards we will speak .
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts , and reputed vile in your sight ?
4 He teareth himself in his anger : shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place ?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out , and the spark of his fire shall not shine .
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle , and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened , and his own counsel shall cast him down .
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet , and he walketh upon a snare .
9 The gin shall take him by the heel , and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground , and a trap for him in the way .
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side , and shall drive him to his feet .
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten , and destruction shall be ready at his side .
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin : even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength .
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle , and it shall bring him to the king of terrors .
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle , because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation .
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off .
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth , and he shall have no name in the street .
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness , and chased out of the world .
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people , nor any remaining in his dwellings .
20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day , as they that went before were affrighted .
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked , and this is the place of him that knoweth not God .