| | 1 | Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
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| | 2 | "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
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| | 3 | Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight?
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| | 4 | You who tear yourself in your anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
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| | 5 | "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
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| | 6 | The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
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| | 7 | The steps of his strength shall be shortened, His own counsel shall cast him down.
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| | 8 | For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh.
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| | 9 | A snare shall take him by the heel; A trap shall lay hold on him.
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| | 10 | A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.
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| | 11 | Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.
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| | 12 | His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.
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| | 13 | The members of his body shall be devoured, The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
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| | 14 | He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
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| | 15 | There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
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| | 16 | His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.
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| | 17 | His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
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| | 18 | He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
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| | 19 | He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
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| | 20 | Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, As those who went before were frightened.
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| | 21 | Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
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