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1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said ,
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1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark , and afterwards we will speak .
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2 "When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
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3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
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3 Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
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4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
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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?
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5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out , and the spark of his fire shall not shine .
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5 "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
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6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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6 The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
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7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened , and his own counsel shall cast him down .
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7 The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
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8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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8 His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders into its mesh.
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9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
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9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
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10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
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10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
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11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
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11 Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
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12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
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12 Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
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13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
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13 It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs.
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14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
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14 He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
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15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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15 Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
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16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off .
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16 His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
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17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street .
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17 The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
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18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
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19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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19 He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
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20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted .
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20 Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror.
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21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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21 Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who knows not God."
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