| Chapter 18 |
1 | Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,
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2 | How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.
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3 | Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?
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4 | But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?
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5 | For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.
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6 | The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
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7 | The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.
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8 | His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.
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9 | His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.
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10 | The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.
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11 | He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.
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12 | His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
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13 | His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
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14 | He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
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15 | In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.
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16 | Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.
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17 | His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
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18 | He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
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19 | He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.
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20 | At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.
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21 | Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.
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