Job 18

World English Bible Protestant Edition, 2020 stable text
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
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“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
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Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
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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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“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
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The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
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The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
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A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
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A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
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Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
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His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
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The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
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He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
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There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
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His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
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His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
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He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
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Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

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World English Bible, eBible.org

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