Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 Job, can't people like you ever be quiet?
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2 If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you.
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“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
3 What makes you think we are as stupid as cattle?
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Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
4 You are only hurting yourself with your anger. Will the earth be deserted because you are angry? Will God move mountains to satisfy you?
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You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
5 The light of the wicked will still be put out; its flame will never burn again.
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“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
6 The lamp in their tents will be darkened.
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The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
7 Their steps were firm, but now they stumble; they fall - victims of their own advice.
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The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
8 They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
9 a trap catches their heels and holds them.
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A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
10 On the ground a snare is hidden; a trap has been set in their path.
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A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
11 All around them terror is waiting; it follows them at every step.
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Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
12 They used to be rich, but now they go hungry; disaster stands and waits at their side.
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His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
13 A deadly disease spreads over their bodies and causes their arms and legs to rot.
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The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
14 They are torn from the tents where they lived secure, and are dragged off to face King Death.
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He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
15 Now anyone may live in their tents - after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect them!
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There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
16 Their roots and branches are withered and dry.
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His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
17 Their fame is ended at home and abroad; no one remembers them any more.
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His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
18 They will be driven out of the land of the living, driven from light into darkness.
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He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 They have no descendants, no survivors.
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He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
20 From east to west, all who hear of their fate shudder and tremble with fear.
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Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
21 That is the fate of evil people, the fate of those who care nothing for God.
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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