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1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2 “How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer!
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“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
3 Do you think we are mere animals? Do you think we are stupid?
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Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid 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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You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of 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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“Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
6 The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.
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The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
7 The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall.
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His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down.
8 The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
9 A trap grabs them by the heel. A snare holds them tight.
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A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.
10 A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path.
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A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
11 “Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step.
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Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
12 Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble.
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His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
13 Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs.
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It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
14 They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down 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 The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses.
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In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
16 Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.
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His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
17 All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names.
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His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
18 They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world.
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He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
19 They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived.
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He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
20 People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified.
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They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
21 They will say, ‘This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.’”
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God. ”
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