| Chapter 18 |
1 | And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
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2 | When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
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3 | Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
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4 | (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
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5 | Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
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6 | The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
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7 | Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
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8 | For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
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9 | Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
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10 | Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
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11 | Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.
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12 | Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
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13 | It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
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14 | Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
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15 | It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
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16 | From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
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17 | His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
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18 | They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
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19 | He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
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20 | At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
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21 | Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
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