You who tear yourself in anger—
Job tears himself in anger, Bildad says, but the earth will not be forsaken or the rock moved from its place for his sake.
This verse denies that Job's outrage can overturn the world's order.
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