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| | Job 18:1 | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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| | Job 18:2 | How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
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| | Job 18:3 | Wherefore are we counted as beasts, `And' are become unclean in your sight?
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| | Job 18:4 | Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
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| | Job 18:5 | Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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| | Job 18:6 | The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
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| | Job 18:7 | The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.
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| | Job 18:8 | For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
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| | Job 18:9 | A gin shall take `him' by the heel, `And' a snare shall lay hold on him.
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| | Job 18:10 | A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.
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| | Job 18:11 | Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.
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| | Job 18:12 | His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
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| | Job 18:13 | The members of his body shall be devoured, `Yea', the first-born of death shall devour his members.
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| | Job 18:14 | He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
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| | Job 18:15 | There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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| | Job 18:16 | His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.
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| | Job 18:17 | His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
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| | Job 18:18 | He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
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| | Job 18:19 | He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
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| | Job 18:20 | They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted.
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| | Job 18:21 | Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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