² “How long^[b] will you^[c] hunt for words?^[d]
Consider,^[e] and afterward we shall speak.
³ Why are we considered as animals?
Why are we taken as^[f] stupid in your^[g] eyes?
⁴ “You who are tearing yourself^[h] in your^[i] anger,
will the earth be forsaken because of you?^[j]
Or^[k] will the rock be removed from its place?
⁵ Furthermore,^[l] the light of the wicked is put out,
and the flame of his fire will not shine.
⁶ The light becomes dark in his tent,
and his lamp above him is put out.
⁷ “His strong steps^[m] are shortened,
and his own schemes^[n] throw him down,
⁸ for he is thrust into a net by his feet,
and he walks into a pitfall.
⁹ A trap seizes him by the heel;
a snare takes hold of him.
¹⁰ His rope is hidden in the ground,
and his trap on the path.
¹¹ “Sudden terrors terrify him all around,
and they chase him at his heels.
¹² His wealth will become hunger,
and disaster is ready for his stumbling.
¹³ It consumes parts of his skin;
the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
¹⁴ He is torn from his tent in which he trusted,^[o]
and it brought him to the king of terrors.
¹⁵ “Nothing^[p] remains for him in his tent;
sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.
¹⁶ His roots dry up below,^[q]
and its branches^[r] wither away above.^[s]
17 His remembrance perishes from the earth,
and there is not a name for him on the street.
¹⁸ “They thrust him from light into darkness,
and they drive him out from the world.
¹⁹ There is no offspring for him nor^[t] a descendant among his people,
and there is not a survivor in his abode.
²⁰ Those of the west are appalled over his fate,^[u]
and those of the east are seized with horror.^[v]
21 Surely these are the dwellings of the godless,
and this is the dwelling place of him who knows not God.”