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- Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
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- How long will ye lay snares for words?
Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
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- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?
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- Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee?
Or shall the rock be removed out of its 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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- The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
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- 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 the toils.
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- A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.
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- A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
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- Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.
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- His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.
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- It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
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- That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent;
and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
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- There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his;
brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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- His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.
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- His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad.
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- He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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- He shall have neither son nor son"s son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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- They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.
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- Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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