“How long until you end these speeches?
He asks how long Job will keep hunting for words and tells him to understand first, and then they can speak.
This verse frames Job as the one prolonging disorder in the debate.
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: 2“How long until you end these speeches? 3Why are we regarded as cattle, 4You who tear yourself in anger— 5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; 6The light in his tent grows dark, 7His vigorous stride is shortened, 8For his own feet lead him into a net, 9A trap seizes his heel; 10A noose is hidden in the ground, 11Terrors frighten him on every side 12His strength is depleted, 13It devours patches of his skin; 14He is torn from the shelter of his tent 15Fire resides in his tent; 16The roots beneath him dry up, 17The memory of him perishes from the earth, 18He is driven from light into darkness 19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, 20Those in the west are appalled at his fate, 21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked