Segunda participación de Bildad
1 Bildad respondió:
2 «¡Hablemos menos y pensemos más;
entonces podremos conversar!
3 Job cree que somos tontos;
nos trata como si fuéramos animales.
4 Tan enojado está
que él mismo se despedaza;
¡pero eso no cambia nada!
5-6 »La vida de los malvados
es como lámpara que se apaga;
es como la luz de una casa,
que de pronto deja de alumbrar.
7-10 Sus pasos van perdiendo fuerza;
caen en sus propias trampas,
y allí se quedan atrapados.
11-12 El miedo y el desastre
los siguen por todas partes;
¡no los dejan ni un momento!
13 La enfermedad y la muerte
les devoran todo el cuerpo.
14 La muerte los arranca
de la tranquilidad del hogar;
15 en su casa hay olor a azufre
porque el fuego la consume.
16 Los malvados son como un árbol,
al que se le secan las raíces
y se le marchitan las ramas.
17-18 Nadie se acuerda de ellos;
son lanzados a la oscuridad
y su fama queda en el olvido.
19 En el pueblo donde vivían,
no les queda ningún pariente.
20 De un extremo al otro de la tierra,
la gente se asombra y se asusta
al saber cómo acabaron.
21 Así terminan los malvados,
los que no reconocen a Dios».
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 9 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.