| Chapter 18 |
1 | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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2 | How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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3 | Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
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4 | He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
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5 | Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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6 | The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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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 cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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9 | The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
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10 | The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
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11 | Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
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12 | His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
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13 | It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the first-born of death shall devour his strength.
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14 | His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
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15 | It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered 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 in the street.
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18 | He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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19 | He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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20 | They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
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21 | Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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