Job 18 / 42
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(Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked)
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
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"How long will you hunt for words?
Consider, and then we will speak.
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Why are we counted as cattle?
Why are we stupid in your sight?
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You who tear yourself in your anger,
shall the earth be forsaken for you,
or the rock be removed out of its place?
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"Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out,
and the flame of his fire does not shine.
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The light is dark in his tent,
and his lamp above him is put out.
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His strong steps are shortened,
and his own schemes throw him down.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
and he walks on its mesh.
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A trap seizes him by the heel;
a snare lays hold of him.
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A rope is hidden for him in the ground,
a trap for him in the path.
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Terrors frighten him on every side,
and chase him at his heels.
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His strength is famished,
and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
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It consumes the parts of his skin;
the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
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He is torn from the tent in which he trusted
and is brought to the king of terrors.
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In his tent dwells that which is none of his;
sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
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His roots dry up beneath,
and his branches wither above.
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His memory perishes from the earth,
and he has no name in the street.
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He is thrust from light into darkness,
and driven out of the world.
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He has no posterity or progeny among his people,
and no survivor where he used to live.
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They of the west are appalled at his day,
and horror seizes them of the east.
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,
such is the place of him who knows not God."