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1 Bildad from Shuah answered:
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2 How long? Would you all stop talking. Try to understand and then we can speak.
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“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
3 Why are we considered beasts, ignorant in your sight?
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Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
4 To you who tear yourself in rage— will earth be forsaken for your sake, a rock be dislodged from its place?
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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?
5 To be sure, the light of the wicked goes out; the blaze of their fire doesn't shine.
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“Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
6 The light in their tent becomes dark, and their lamp above doesn't shine.
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The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
7 Their strong strides slow down; their plans trip themselves.
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His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down.
8 They are caught by their feet in a net; they walk on mesh.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
9 A trap grabs them by the heel; a snare tightens on them.
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A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.
10 A rope is hidden on the ground for them; a trap for them along the path.
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A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
11 Terrors round about scare them; they follow their steps.
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Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
12 Their offspring hunger; calamity is ready for their spouses.
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His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
13 It eats some of their skin. Death's firstborn consumes their limbs.
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It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
14 They are snatched from the safety of their tent; it parades them before the king of terrors.
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He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors.
15 Nothing they own remains in their tent; sulfur is scattered over their home.
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In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
16 Their roots dry out below; their branches wither above.
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His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
17 The memory of them will perish from the earth; they will achieve no recognition abroad.
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His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
18 They are thrust from light into darkness, banished from the world.
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He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
19 They have no offspring or descendants among their people, no survivor in their dwelling place.
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He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
20 Their successors are appalled at what happens to them; their predecessors pull their hair.
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They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
21 These are surely the dwelling places of the evil; this is the place of the one who doesn't know God.
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God. ”
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