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1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 “When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
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How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.
3 Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
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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Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
5 “The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
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The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
7 The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
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The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.
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For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
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The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;
10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
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A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.
11 Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
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Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
12 Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
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His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
13 It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs.
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The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
14 He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
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His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
15 Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
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They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
16 His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
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His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
17 The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
18 He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world.
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He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
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He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
20 People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror.
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They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted.
21 Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God.”
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Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.
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