Chapter 18

  Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:  

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  How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.  

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  Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?  

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  Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?  

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  Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?  

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  The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.  

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  The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.  

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  For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.  

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  The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.  

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  A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.  

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  Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.  

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  Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.  

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  Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.  

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  Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.  

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  Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.  

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  Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.  

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  Let the memory of him perish from the earth and let not his name be renowned in the streets.  

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  He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.  

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  His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.  

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  They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.  

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  These men are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.  

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