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| | Job 18:1 | Then Bildad the Shuhite responded,
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| | Job 18:2 | "How long will you hunt for words? Show understanding and then we can talk.
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| | Job 18:3 | "Why are we regarded as beasts, As stupid in your eyes?
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| | Job 18:4 | "O you who tear yourself in your anger-- For your sake is the earth to be abandoned, Or the rock to be moved from its place?
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| | Job 18:5 | "Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, And the flame of his fire gives no light.
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| | Job 18:6 | "The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him.
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| | Job 18:7 | "His vigorous stride is shortened, And his own scheme brings him down.
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| | Job 18:8 | "For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.
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| | Job 18:9 | "A snare seizes him by the heel, And a trap snaps shut on him.
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| | Job 18:10 | "A noose for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the path.
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| | Job 18:11 | "All around terrors frighten him, And harry him at every step.
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| | Job 18:12 | "His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side.
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| | Job 18:13 | "His skin is devoured by disease, The firstborn of death devours his limbs.
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| | Job 18:14 | "He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors.
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| | Job 18:15 | "There dwells in his tent nothing of his; Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.
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| | Job 18:16 | "His roots are dried below, And his branch is cut off above.
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| | Job 18:17 | "Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.
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| | Job 18:18 | "He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.
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| | Job 18:19 | "He has no offspring or posterity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned.
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| | Job 18:20 | "Those in the west are appalled at his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror.
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| | Job 18:21 | "Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God."
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
