Job 18

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• 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
• 2. "When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
• 3. Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
• 4. You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?
• 5. "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
• 6. The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
• 7. The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
• 8. His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders into its mesh.
• 9. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
• 10. A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
• 11. Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
• 12. Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
• 13. It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs.
• 14. He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
• 15. Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
• 16. His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
• 17. The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
• 18. He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
• 19. He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
• 20. Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror.
• 21. Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who knows not God."

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