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1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
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Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
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“When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
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Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
4 You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
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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?
5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
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“The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
6 The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
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The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
7 The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
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The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
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His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.
9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
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A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
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A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
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Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
12 His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
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Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
13 The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
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It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs.
14 He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
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He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
15 There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
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Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
16 His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
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His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
17 His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
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The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
18 He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world.
19 He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
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He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
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People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
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Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God.”
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