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Job, Chapter 18

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite^aresponded,
² “How long will you hunt for words?
Show understanding and then we can talk.
³ “Why are we regarded as beasts,
As stupid in your eyes?
⁴ “O^byou who tear yourself in your anger—
For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?
⁵ “Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out,
And the^cflame of his fire gives no light.
⁶ “The light in his tent is darkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.
⁷ “His^dvigorous stride is shortened,
And his own scheme brings him down.
⁸ “For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.
⁹ “A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.
¹⁰ “A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.
¹¹ “All around terrors frighten him,
And harry him at every step.
¹² “His strength is famished,
And calamity is ready at his side.
¹³ “^eHis skin is devoured by disease,
The firstborn of death devours his^flimbs.
¹⁴ “He is torn from^gthe security of his tent,
And^hthey march him before the king of terrors.
¹⁵ “ⁱThere dwells in his tent nothing of his;
Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.
¹⁶ “His roots are dried below,
And his branch is cut off above.
¹⁷ “Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.
¹⁸ “^jHe is driven from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.
¹⁹ “He has no offspring or posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.
²⁰ “Those^kin the west are appalled at his^lfate,
And those^min the east are seized with horror.
²¹ “Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”


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