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1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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Bildad from Shuah answered:
2 “How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer!
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How long? Would you all stop talking. Try to understand and then we can speak.
3 Do you think we are mere animals? Do you think we are stupid?
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Why are we considered beasts, ignorant in your sight?
4 You may tear out your hair in anger, but will that destroy the earth? Will it make the rocks tremble?
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To you who tear yourself in rage— will earth be forsaken for your sake, a rock be dislodged from its place?
5 “Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. The sparks of their fire will not glow.
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To be sure, the light of the wicked goes out; the blaze of their fire doesn't shine.
6 The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.
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The light in their tent becomes dark, and their lamp above doesn't shine.
7 The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall.
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Their strong strides slow down; their plans trip themselves.
8 The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit.
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They are caught by their feet in a net; they walk on mesh.
9 A trap grabs them by the heel. A snare holds them tight.
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A trap grabs them by the heel; a snare tightens on them.
10 A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path.
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A rope is hidden on the ground for them; a trap for them along the path.
11 “Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step.
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Terrors round about scare them; they follow their steps.
12 Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble.
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Their offspring hunger; calamity is ready for their spouses.
13 Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs.
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It eats some of their skin. Death's firstborn consumes their limbs.
14 They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors.
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They are snatched from the safety of their tent; it parades them before the king of terrors.
15 The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses.
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Nothing they own remains in their tent; sulfur is scattered over their home.
16 Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.
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Their roots dry out below; their branches wither above.
17 All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names.
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The memory of them will perish from the earth; they will achieve no recognition abroad.
18 They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world.
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They are thrust from light into darkness, banished from the world.
19 They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived.
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They have no offspring or descendants among their people, no survivor in their dwelling place.
20 People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified.
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Their successors are appalled at what happens to them; their predecessors pull their hair.
21 They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.’”
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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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