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1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2 “When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
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"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
3 Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
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Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we 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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You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or 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 is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
6 The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
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The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
7 The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
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His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.
8 His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.
9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
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A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.
10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
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A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
11 Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
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Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
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 for his stumbling.
13 It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs.
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By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
14 He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to 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 Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
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In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
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His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
17 The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
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His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
18 He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world.
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He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven 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 has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
20 People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror.
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They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
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 ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."
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