Book of Job - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 836

However, Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said Pray when will you stop in your talk? Be sensible is Then we can speak. Why are we regarded as beasts, As something unclean in your sight? He tears up his soul in his rage! Should the earth he deserted for you? And the rocks be removed from their place ?-· Yesl the light of the bad is put out, And the gleam from the Hame of his fire! And the light in his tent shall be dark, And the lantern above it be quenched! His vigorous stridings will halt, And his tactics will lead to defeat, For his feet will be caught in his net, And himself bound about in his toilsl His heel will be caught in a hole, A noose will be flung over him ; A rope be concealed in the earth; And a trap for him laid on the road, Be harassed by terrors all round, And his feet shall be broken to bits! A famine shall come on his strength, And destruction shall fix to his iiank Devouring the skin of his limbs, And the iirst~born of death gnaw his frame; His guard will be driven from his tent, And the King of the Terrors march in ; Who will dwell in his tent,—no more his, And lightning be poured on his home. His root will be dried up below, And his branches be withered above ; His memory will perish from earth; And his fame not remain in the streets! He be driven from dawn to the dark, And hunted away from the world ! Without son, or grandson, in his tribe, And none to survive in his home. The Wes_terns will wonder at his day, And the Easterns be seized with a fear. Yes l such are the homes of the had Such the place not acknowledging GOD! Gilyz fififtly Reply uf 3nh. job, however, replied, and said: How long will you worry my life P

And make me feel.crushed by your words? You have libelled me fully ten times, And are yet not ashamed to revile? But grant it be true, I have sinned, My errors remain with myself. Why indeed should you swell up against And reproach me, with my own disgrace? Admit, that GOD has oppressed me, And His lasso has flung round my neck, That unanswered, I cry in distress, And appeal——but I have not a judge 2 That He blocks up the path I would go, And spreads darkness over my roads; Has stripped off my glory from me 836