Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked
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Then 1Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
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"How long will you 2hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
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Why are we counted as 3cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
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You who 4tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or 5the rock be removed out of its place?
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"Indeed, 6the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
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The light is 7dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
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His strong steps are shortened, and his 8own schemes throw him down.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
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9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.
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A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
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10Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
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His strength is famished, and calamity is 11ready for his stumbling.
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It consumes the parts of his skin; 12the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
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He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to 13the king of terrors.
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In his tent dwells that which is none of his; 14sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
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His 17memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
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18He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
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He has no 19posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who 22knows not God."
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)