Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2 How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
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"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we shall speak.
3 For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?
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Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
4 Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?
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You who tear yourself in your anger— shall the earth be forsaken because of you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
5 But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
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"Surely the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of their fire does not shine.
6 His light darkness in habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
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The light is dark in their tent, and the lamp above them is put out.
7 Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive .
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Their strong steps are shortened, and their own schemes throw them down.
8 His foot also has been caught in a snare, let it be entangled in a net.
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For they are thrust into a net by their own feet, and they walk into a pitfall.
9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
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A trap seizes them by the heel; a snare lays hold of them.
10 His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
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A rope is hid for them in the ground, a trap for them in the path.
11 Let pains destroy him round about, and let many come about him,
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Terrors frighten them on every side, and chase them at their heels.
12 with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
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Their strength is consumed by hunger, and calamity is ready for their stumbling.
13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
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By disease their skin is consumed, the firstborn of Death consumes their limbs.
14 And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
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They are torn from the tent in which they trusted, and are brought to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
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In their tents nothing remains; sulfur is scattered upon their habitations.
16 His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
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Their roots dry up beneath, and their branches wither above.
17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
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Their memory perishes from the earth, and they have no name in the street.
18 Let drive him from light into darkness.
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They are thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
19 He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
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They have no offspring or descendant among their people, and no survivor where they used to live.
20 But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
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They of the west are appalled at their fate, and horror seizes those of the east.
21 These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
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Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of those who do not know God."
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