| Chapter 18 |
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And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: -- --
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When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak. --
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Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes! --
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(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place? --
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Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. --
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The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished. --
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Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel. --
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For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. --
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Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing. --
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Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path. --
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Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet. --
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Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side. --
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It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born. --
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Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors. --
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It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur. --
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From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. --
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His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. --
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They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out. --
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He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings. --
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At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright. --
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Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known. --
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