1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2. “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterward we shall speak.
3. Why are we considered as animals? Why are we taken as stupid in your eyes?
4. “You who are tearing yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken because of you? Or will the rock be removed from its place?
5. Furthermore, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine.
6. The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
7. “His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down,
8. for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall.
9. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare takes hold of him.
10. His rope is hidden in the ground, and his trap on the path.