1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,2How long will you set snares for speeches? Understand, and afterward we will speak.3Why have we been regarded like an animal and considered unclean in your eyes?4Does he tear his own soul in his anger? Will the land be forsaken on your account, and will a rock be removed from its place?5Moreover, the light of the wicked will be extinguished, and the flame of his fire will not shine.6The light in his tent will grow dark, and his lamp above him will go out.7His vigorous steps will be hampered, and his own counsel will cast him down.8For he is cast into a net by his feet and walks upon a lattice.9A snare seizes him by the heel; snares tighten upon him.10A cord has been hidden for him in the land, and his snare lies upon the path.11Terrors terrify him on every side and drive him headlong to his feet.12His strength becomes hungry, and calamity stands ready at his side.13Death the firstborn consumes the bars of his skin; it devours his limbs.14He is torn from the security of his tent and is marched away to the king of terrors.15Nothing remains for him in his tent; brimstone is scattered over his pasture.16His roots dry up from beneath, and his foliage withers from above.17His memory perishes from the land, and he has no name left upon the face of the earth.18They thrust him from light into darkness and drive him from the world.19He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor remains in his dwelling place.20On the day of his calamity the last and the first are appalled; they are seized with horror.21Surely such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one who does not know God.