| Chapter 18 |
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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, --
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How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. --
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight? --
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Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? --
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine. --
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The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. --
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The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down. --
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils. --
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A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay hold on him. --
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A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way. --
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Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels. --
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His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side. --
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The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the first-born of death shall devour his members. --
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He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors. --
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There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. --
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His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. --
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. --
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He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. --
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He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned. --
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They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted. --
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God. --
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