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Job 18

Bildad Speaks of the Wicked

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Then Bildad the Shuhite  1responded,

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"How long will you hunt for words? Show understanding and then we can talk.

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"Why are we  aregarded as beasts, As stupid in your eyes?

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"O  1you who tear yourself in your anger-- For your sake is the earth to be abandoned, Or the rock to be moved from its place?

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"Indeed, the  alight of the wicked goes out, And the  1flame of his fire gives no light.

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"The light in his tent is  adarkened, And his lamp goes out above him.

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"His  1vigorous stride is shortened, And his  aown scheme brings him down.

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"For he is  athrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.

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"A snare seizes him by the heel, And a trap snaps shut on him.

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"A noose for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the path.

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"All around  aterrors frighten him, And  bharry him at every step.

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"His strength is  afamished, And calamity is ready at his side.

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1His skin is devoured by disease, The firstborn of death  adevours his  2limbs.

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"He is  atorn from  1the security of his tent, And  2they march him before the king of  bterrors.

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1There dwells in his tent nothing of his;  aBrimstone is scattered on his habitation.

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"His  aroots are dried below, And his  bbranch is cut off above.

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aMemory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.

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1He is driven from light  ainto darkness, And  bchased from the inhabited world.

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"He has no  aoffspring or posterity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

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"Those  1in the west are appalled at  ahis  2fate, And those  3in the east are seized with horror.

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"Surely such are the  adwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God."



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