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Bildad's second reply
1 Then Bildad replied again:
2 “When are you going to stop talking? [RHQ]
If you would stop talking and listen, we could tell you something.
3 Why do you think that we are as stupid as cattle? [DOU, RHQ]
4 By being very angry, you are only hurting yourself.
Do you think that everyone on the earth must leave to prove that you are right,
or do you think that God must move the rocks in the mountains to please you? [RHQ]
5 What will happen is that the lives of wicked people like you end
as quickly as we can put out a light or extinguish the flame of a fire.
6 And when the lamps above them in their tents are extinguished,
there will be no light in those tents.
7 While they were alive they walked confidently,
but later it was as though they stumbled and fell,
because they themselves did not heed the advice that they gave to others.
8 It was as though they walked into their own net
or fell into a pit that they themselves have dug.
9 It was as though a trap grabbed their heels and held them fast [DOU],
10 as though the noose of a rope that was hidden on the ground, whose other end was fastened to the limb of a tree,
sprung up and seized them when they walked on it.
11 Everywhere they went, there were things that caused them to be terrified;
it was as though they were pursuing them and biting at their heels.
12 They became hungry, with the result that they had no strength.
They experienced disasters [PRS] constantly.
13 Diseases spread all over their skin/bodies;
diseases that ◄caused their bodies to decay/destroyed their arms and legs►.
14 When they died, they were snatched away from their tents
and brought to the one who rules over the dead.
15 Now other people live in their tents/houses,
but only after they sprinkle sulfur on those tents/houses to ◄disinfect them/get rid of the diseases►!
16 Because those who died had no descendants,
they were like trees whose roots have dried up and whose branches have all withered [MET].
17 No one on the earth remembers them any more;
no one on any street even remembers their names [MTY].
18 They were expelled from the earth where there is light,
and they were sent into the place where it is dark.
19 They have no children or grandchildren,
no descendants where they previously lived.
20 People from the east to the west who hear about what happened to them, everyone,
are shocked and horrified.
21 And that is what happens to ungodly/sinful people like you,
to people who ◄have no interest in/have rejected► God.”
Note: The Old Testament in this translation is still being worked on, and is in draft form. Updates will be posted at eBible.org/t4t/.