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Chapter 18 |
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1 | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
said, |
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How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and
afterwards we will speak. |
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3 | Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and
reputed vile in your sight? |
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4 | He teareth himself in his anger: shall
the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his
place? |
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark
of his fire shall not shine. |
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6 | The light shall be dark in his
tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. |
| 7 | The steps of
his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him
down. |
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon
a snare. |
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| The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall
prevail against him. |
| 10 | The snare is laid for him in the ground, and
a trap for him in the way. |
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11 | Terrors shall make him afraid on every
side, and shall drive him to his feet. |
| 12 | His strength shall be
hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. |
| 13 | It shall
devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his
strength. |
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| His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and
it shall bring him to the king of terrors. |
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15 | It shall dwell in his
tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his
habitation. |
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16 | His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above
shall his branch be cut off. |
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17 | His remembrance shall perish from the
earth, and he shall have no name in the street. |
| 18 | He shall be
driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. |
| 19 | He
shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his
dwellings. |
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| They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as
they that went before were affrighted. |
| 21 | Surely such are the dwellings
of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God. |
