| 章 |
| 18:1 |
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
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| 18:2 |
'How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
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| 18:3 |
Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
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| 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?
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| 18:5 |
'Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
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| 18:6 |
The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
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| 18:7 |
His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.
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| 18:8 |
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.
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| 18:9 |
A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.
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| 18:10 |
A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
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| 18:11 |
Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
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| 18:12 |
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
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| 18:13 |
By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
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| 18:14 |
He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.
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| 18:15 |
In his tent dwells that which is none of his;brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
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| 18:16 |
His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
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| 18:17 |
His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
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| 18:18 |
He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
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| 18:19 |
He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
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| 18:20 |
They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
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| 18:21 |
Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God.'
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