| 1 | But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying: |
| 2 | How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak. |
| 3 | Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you? |
| 4 | You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place? |
| 5 | Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine? |
| 6 | Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished. |
| 7 | His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably. |
| 8 | For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web. |
| 9 | His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him. |
| 10 | A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path. |
| 11 | Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet. |
| 12 | Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs. |
| 13 | Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms. |
| 14 | Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king. |
| 15 | Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle. |
| 16 | Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above. |
| 17 | Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets. |
| 18 | He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world. |
| 19 | Neither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country. |
| 20 | The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror. |
| 21 | And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God. |
