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18 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

El orden divino acaba con el malvado

18 Bildad de Súaj habló así:

¿Cuándo acabarán con tanto discurso?
Reflexionen primero y hablemos después.
¿Por qué dejarnos tratar como animales?
¿O piensan acaso que carecemos de talento?
Tu cólera está acabando contigo,
¿pero quedará por eso deshabitada la tierra
y serán las rocas desencajadas de su sitio?
La lámpara del malvado se apaga,
ya no brilla el resplandor de su hogar.
La luz de su tienda va menguando,
el candil que lo alumbra se extingue.
Pierde fuerza su pie vigoroso,
lo descarrían sus propios proyectos;
sus pies lo conducen a la red,
camina por encima de una malla;
un lazo le atrapa los tobillos,
un cepo se cierra sobre ellos;
10 un nudo se oculta en el suelo,
una trampa lo aguarda en el camino.
11 Lo rodean terrores espantosos,
lo acosan cuando intenta caminar:
12 la Desgracia lo persigue hambrienta,
el Desastre espera su traspiés;
13 la Enfermedad devora su piel,
la Muerte corroe sus miembros.
14 Arrancado del amparo de su tienda,
lo arrastran ante el Rey de los terrores.
15 El fuego se instala en su tienda,
esparcen azufre en su morada;
16 por abajo se pudren sus raíces,
por arriba se secan sus ramas;
17 su memoria se borra en el país,
se queda sin nombre en la comarca.
18 Lo llevan de la luz a las tinieblas,
acaba expulsado del mundo,
19 sin familia ni prole entre los suyos,
sin nadie que ocupe su terruño.
20 Su destino espanta al Occidente,
el terror atenaza a los de Oriente.
21 Así acaba la morada del malvado,
el lugar de quien no reconoce a Dios.