For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
[Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
