Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked

1Then aunswered Bildad the Suhite, and saide:

2When wyll ye make an ende of your wordes? Marke well, and then we wyll speake.

3Wherfore are we counted as beastes, and reputed so vyle in your sight?

4He destroyeth him selfe with his anger: Shall the earth be forsaken, or any stone remoued out of his place because of thee?

5Yea, the light of the vngodly shalbe put out, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.

6The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.

7The steppes of his strength shalbe restrayned, and his owne counsaile shall cast him downe:

8For his feete are taken as it were in the net, & he walketh vpon the snares.

9The grinne shall take him by the heele, and it shall catche him that is thirstie of blood.

10The snare is layde for him in the grounde, and a pitfall in the way.

11Fearefulnesse shall make him afraide on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.

12Hunger shalbe his strength, and destruction shalbe redye at his side.

13It shall eate the strength of his owne skinne, euen the first borne of death shall eate his strength.

14His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him to the king of feare.

15Other men shall dwell in his house, and it shalbe none of his, and brimstone shall be scattered vpon his habitation.

16His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his braunche be cut downe.

17His remembraunce shall perishe from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.

18They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse, and chaste him cleane out of the worlde.

19He shall neither haue children nor kinsfolkes among his people, no nor any posteritie in his dwellinges.

20They that come after him, shalbe astonyed at his day, and they that go before shalbe afrayde.

21Such are now the dwellinges of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.