Bildad speaks to Job again
1Bildad, from the land of Shuah, spoke again. He said:
2‘How long do you want to keep on speaking?
You must first think about what
you want to say before you start speaking.
3Job, you speak to us as if we were stupid animals.
4You are so angry that you want to
tear yourself into pieces.
Do you want everyone on earth to disappear?
Do you want big rocks to move away
from where they are
so that you can be happy?
5It is true: People who
do wrong will die.
Their light will go out, and they will be
like a fire that stops burning.
6It becomes dark in their tents,
and their lamps go out.
7When they walk, their steps become
shorter than they were before,
and they fall into their own traps.
8Their feet are caught in the net
when they walk into a trap.
9The net catches their feet and holds them.
10They don't see the rope in front of them,
and they don't see the trap in their way.
11There are many things that
make them afraid and
chase them so that they run away.
12They become hungry and weak
and there are problems everywhere they look.
13Disease makes them sick,
and it eats away parts of their skin.
Their fingers, arms, toes and legs
fall off and die.
14They think that they are safe in their tents,
but then death comes to take them away.
Death is the king_of_terrors.
15People throw sulphur over the tents
of those bad people and burn them down.
16They are like a tree whose roots
become dry and whose leaves fall off.
17No one will remember
that they ever lived,
and people on the street
will not know their names.
18People chase them away
from the light to the darkness.
They chase them out of the world.
19They will not have children or grandchildren,
and no one will stay alive where they lived.
20People from the east to the west
will become afraid when they see
what happened to them.
21This is what will happen to sinful people,
and to the homes of people who don't know God.’
