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Job 18, RSV

18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

18:2 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.

18:3 Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?

18:4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

18:5 "Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

18:6 The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

18:7 His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.

18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.

18:9 A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.

18:10 A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.

18:11 Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

18:12 His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

18:13 By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.

18:14 He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.

18:15 In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.

18:16 His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.

18:17 His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.

18:18 He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

18:19 He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

18:20 They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.

18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."

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