- But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying
- How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak
- Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you
- You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place
- Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine
- Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished
- His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably
- For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web
- His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him
- A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path
- Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet
- Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs
- Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms
- Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king
- Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle
- Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above
- Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets
- He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world
- Neither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country
- The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror
- And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God