¹Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

¹ויען בלדד השחי ויאמר׃

²How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

²עד אנה תשימון קנצי למלין תבינו ואחר נדבר׃

³Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

³מדוע נחשבנו כבהמה נטמינו בעיניכם׃

⁴He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

⁴טרף נפשו באפו הלמענך תעזב ארץ ויעתק צור ממקמו׃

⁵Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁵גם אור רשעים ידעך ולא יגה שביב אשו׃

⁶The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

⁶אור חשך באהלו ונרו עליו ידעך׃

⁷The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

⁷יצרו צעדי אונו ותשליכהו עצתו׃

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

⁸כי שלח ברשת ברגליו ועל שבכה יתהלך׃

⁹The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

⁹יאחז בעקב פח יחזק עליו צמים׃

¹⁰The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

¹⁰טמון בארץ חבלו ומלכדתו עלי נתיב׃

¹¹Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

¹¹סביב בעתהו בלהות והפיצהו לרגליו׃

¹²His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

¹²יהי רעב אנו ואיד נכון לצלעו׃

¹³It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

¹³יאכל בדי עורו יאכל בדיו בכור מות׃

¹⁴His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

¹⁴ינתק מאהלו מבטחו ותצעדהו למלך בלהות׃

¹⁵It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

¹⁵תשכון באהלו מבלי לו יזרה על נוהו גפרית׃

¹⁶His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

¹⁶מתחת שרשיו יבשו וממעל ימל קצירו׃

¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

¹⁷זכרו אבד מני ארץ ולא שם לו על פני חוץ׃

¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

¹⁸יהדפהו מאור אל חשך ומתבל ינדהו׃

¹⁹He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

¹⁹לא נין לו ולא נכד בעמו ואין שריד במגוריו׃

²⁰They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

²⁰על יומו נשמו אחרנים וקדמנים אחזו שער׃

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

²¹אך אלה משכנות עול וזה מקום לא ידע אל׃