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Job
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English: New American Standard Bible |
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Job 18 [Commentary]
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Then Bildad the Shuhite responded, |
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"How long will you hunt for words?
Show understanding and then we can talk.
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"Why are we regarded as beasts,
As stupid in your eyes?
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"O you who tear yourself in your anger--
For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?
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"Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out,
And the flame of his fire gives no light.
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"The light in his tent is darkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.
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"His vigorous stride is shortened,
And his own scheme brings him down.
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"For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.
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"A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.
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"A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.
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"All around terrors frighten him,
And harry him at every step.
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"His strength is famished,
And calamity is ready at his side.
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"His skin is devoured by disease,
The firstborn of death devours his limbs.
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"He is torn from the security of his tent,
And they march him before the king of terrors.
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"There dwells in his tent nothing of his;
Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.
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"His roots are dried below,
And his branch is cut off above.
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"Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.
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"He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.
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"He has no offspring or posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.
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"Those in the west are appalled at his fate,
And those in the east are seized with horror.
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"Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God."
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