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- ¶ THEN Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,
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- How long will you resist words?
Understand! and afterwards we will speak.
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- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and have become abominable in your sight?
O you who slays himself in his anger?
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- Shall the earth be forsaken for your sake?
And shall the mountain be removed out of its place?
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- ¶ Yea, the lamp 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 above him shall be extinguished.
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- He shall be deserted in his illness, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
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- For he has stretched out his feet into the net, and lie walks upon a snare.
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- The trap seizes him by the heel, and thirst shall prevail against him.
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- A snare is laid for him on the ground, and a trap for him in his paths.
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- ¶ Terror shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
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- Let famine be his grief, let destruction be ready for his posterity.
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- Let force devour his towns, let his first-born die in violence.
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- His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and he shall be brought hastily by the king’s executioner.
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- Others shall dwell in his tent, because there is no one in it;
brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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- His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his vintage be cut off.
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- His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name upon it.
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- He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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- He shall neither have name nor remembrance among the people, nor any survivor in his dwelling place.
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- They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were terrified.
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- Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked, and this is the place of him who knows not God.
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