Thomson(i)
1 Here Baldad the Sauchean interrupting him said,
2 How long will it be ere thou wilt stop? Forbear that we may speak.
3 Why should we like beasts be silent before thee?
4 Passion hath taken possession of thee. What! If thou die, shall the earth be uninhabited? Or the mountains overturned from their foundations?
5 The light of the wicked shall indeed be extinguished; and from them a spark shall not ascend.
6 The light in his dwelling shall be darkness, and the lamp for him shall be extinguished.
7 Let the weakest plunder his substance, and his own counsel subvert him.
8 His foot is caught in a trap;
9 in a net let him be entangled, and let snares come upon him. He will strengthen the thirsty against him.
10 A gin is hid for him in the ground, and the trap for him by the way side.
11 May surrounding sorrows destroy him, and many come round his foot in sore famine.
12 For him indeed a direful destruction is prepared.
13 May the toes of his feet be eaten up, and death devour his comeliness.
14 May health be expelled from his dwelling, and distress lay hold on him with the authority of a king.
15 It will make its abode in his tent; in his night all his finery will be strewed with sulphur.
16 Underneath his roots will be dried up; and above, his product will fall.
17 May the memorial of him be destroyed from the earth.
18 When his name shall be published abroad, may they drive him from light to darkness.
19 He will not be acknowledged among his people, nor will his household be safe under the cope of heaven. But in his possessions others shall live secure.
20 They who came after groaned for him, but horror seized them who were before.
21 Such are the houses of the unrighteous, and such the place of them who know not the Lord.