📖 Job 18
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Bildad’s Second Speech Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
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“How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.
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Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?
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You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?
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“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.
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The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
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His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.
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For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.
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A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.
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A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.
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Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.
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Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.
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It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.
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He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.
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Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.
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Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.
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His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.
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He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
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He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.
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People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,
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‘Surely such is the residence of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”