Chapter 18 | |
1 | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
2 | How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. |
3 | Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight? |
4 | Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? |
5 | Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine. |
6 | The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. |
7 | The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down. |
8 | For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils. |
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A gin shall take him by the heel, And a snare shall lay hold on him. |
10 | A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way. |
11 | Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels. |
12 | His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side. |
13 | The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members. |
14 | He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors. |
15 | There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. |
16 | His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. |
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. |
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He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. |
19 | He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned. |
20 | They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted. |
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God. |