Chapter 18

  And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,  

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  How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.  

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  Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?  

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  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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  Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.  

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  The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over 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 sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;  

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  The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;  

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  A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.  

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  Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.  

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  His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.  

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  The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.  

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  His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:  

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  They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered 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 on the pasture-grounds.  

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  He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.  

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  He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.  

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  They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.  

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  Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not ùGod.  

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