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The Message Bible MSG
1 Bildad from Shuah answered:
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Bildad from Shuhah chimed in:
2 How long? Would you all stop talking. Try to understand and then we can speak.
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"How monotonous these word games are getting! Get serious! We need to get down to business.
3 Why are we considered beasts, ignorant in your sight?
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Why do you treat your friends like slow-witted animals? You look down on us as if we don't know anything.
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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Why are you working yourself up like this? Do you want the world redesigned to suit you? Should reality be suspended to accommodate you?
5 To be sure, the light of the wicked goes out; the blaze of their fire doesn't shine.
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"Here's the rule: The light of the wicked is put out. Their flame dies down and is extinguished.
6 The light in their tent becomes dark, and their lamp above doesn't shine.
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Their house goes dark - every lamp in the place goes out.
7 Their strong strides slow down; their plans trip themselves.
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Their strong strides weaken, falter; they stumble into their own traps.
8 They are caught by their feet in a net; they walk on mesh.
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They get all tangled up in their own red tape,
9 A trap grabs them by the heel; a snare tightens on them.
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Their feet are grabbed and caught, their necks in a noose.
10 A rope is hidden on the ground for them; a trap for them along the path.
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They trip on ropes they've hidden, and fall into pits they've dug themselves.
11 Terrors round about scare them; they follow their steps.
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Terrors come at them from all sides. They run helter-skelter.
12 Their offspring hunger; calamity is ready for their spouses.
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The hungry grave is ready to gobble them up for supper,
13 It eats some of their skin. Death's firstborn consumes their limbs.
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To lay them out for a gourmet meal, a treat for ravenous Death.
14 They are snatched from the safety of their tent; it parades them before the king of terrors.
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They are snatched from their home sweet home and marched straight to the death house.
15 Nothing they own remains in their tent; sulfur is scattered over their home.
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Their lives go up in smoke; acid rain soaks their ruins.
16 Their roots dry out below; their branches wither above.
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Their roots rot and their branches wither.
17 The memory of them will perish from the earth; they will achieve no recognition abroad.
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They'll never again be remembered - nameless in unmarked graves.
18 They are thrust from light into darkness, banished from the world.
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They are plunged from light into darkness, banished from the world.
19 They have no offspring or descendants among their people, no survivor in their dwelling place.
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And they leave empty-handed - not one single child - nothing to show for their life on this earth.
20 Their successors are appalled at what happens to them; their predecessors pull their hair.
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Westerners are aghast at their fate, easterners are horrified:
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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'Oh no! So this is what happens to perverse people. This is how the God-ignorant end up!'"
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