| Chapter 18 |
1 | And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
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2 | How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.
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3 | Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
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4 | Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
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5 | Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
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6 | The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
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7 | The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
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8 | For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
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9 | The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;
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10 | A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.
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11 | Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
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12 | His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
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13 | The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
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14 | His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
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15 | They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
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16 | His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
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17 | His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
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18 | He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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19 | He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
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20 | They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.
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21 | Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not łGod.
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