Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked

1Then answered Baldad the Suhite, and sayde:

2when wil ye make an ende of youre wordes? Marcke well, and considre, we wil speake also.

3Wherfore are we counted as beestes, & reputed so vyle in youre sight?

4Why destroyest thou thy self with anger? Shal ye earth be forsaken, or the stones remoued out of their place because of ye?

5Shal not the light of the vngodly be put out? yee the flame of his fyre shal not burne.

6The light shalbe darcke in his dwellinge, & his candle shalbe put out with him.

7His presumptuous goinges shal be kepte in, and his owne councell shal cast him downe.

8For his fete shalbe taken in the nett, and he shal walke in the snare.

9His fote shalbe holden in the gilder, and the thurstie shal catch him.

10The snare is layed for him in the grounde, and a pytfall in the waye.

11Fearfulnesse shal make him afrayed on euery syde, that he shall not knowe, where to get out.

12Honger shalbe his substaunce, and mysfortune shall hange vpon him.

13He shall eate his owne skynne, yee his owne armes shall he deuoure, beynge a firstborne of death.

14All his comforte and hope shalbe roted out of his dwellynge, very fearfulnesse shall brynge him to the kynge.

15Other men shall dwel in his house (which now is none of his) and brymstone shalbe scatered vpon his habitacion.

16His rotes shalbe dryed vp beneth, & aboue shall his haruest be cut downe.

17His remembraunce shall perish from the earth, & his name shall not be praysed in the stretes:

18he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde.

19He shall nether haue children ner kynsfolkes amonge his people, no ner eny posterite in his countre:

20yonge & olde shalbe astonyshed at his death.

21Soch are now the dwellynges of the wicked, and this is ye place of him that knoweth not God.