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Job 18

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

²"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

³Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight?

⁴You who tear yourself in your anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

⁵"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁶The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.

⁷The steps of his strength shall be shortened, His own counsel shall cast him down.

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh.

⁹A snare shall take him by the heel; A trap shall lay hold on him.

¹⁰A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.

¹¹Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

¹²His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.

¹³The members of his body shall be devoured, The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

¹⁴He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

¹⁵There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

¹⁶His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.

¹⁷His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

¹⁹He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

²⁰Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, As those who went before were frightened.

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn`t know God."

Job 18 (WEB)

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Job

Chapter 18

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