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| | Job 18:1 | Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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| | Job 18:2 | "How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer!
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| | Job 18:3 | Do you think we are cattle? Do you think we have no intelligence?
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| | Job 18:4 | You may tear your hair out in anger, but will that cause the earth to be abandoned? Will it make rocks fall from a cliff?
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| | Job 18:5 | "The truth remains that the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. The sparks of their fire will not glow.
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| | Job 18:6 | The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.
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| | Job 18:7 | The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened. Their own schemes will be their downfall.
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| | Job 18:8 | "The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit that's been dug in the path.
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| | Job 18:9 | A trap grabs them by the heel. A noose tightens around them.
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| | Job 18:10 | A snare lies hidden in the ground. A rope lies coiled on their path.
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| | Job 18:11 | "Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step.
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| | Job 18:12 | Their vigor is depleted by hunger, and calamity waits for them to stumble.
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| | Job 18:13 | Disease eats their skin; death devours their limbs.
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| | Job 18:14 | They are torn from the security of their tent, and they are brought down to the king of terrors.
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| | Job 18:15 | The home of the wicked will disappear beneath a fiery barrage of burning sulfur.
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| | Job 18:16 | Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.
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| | Job 18:17 | All memory of their existence will perish from the earth. No one will remember them.
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| | Job 18:18 | They will be thrust from light into darkness, driven from the world.
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| | Job 18:19 | They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in their home country.
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| | Job 18:20 | People in the west are appalled at their fate; people in the east are horrified.
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| | Job 18:21 | They will say, 'This was the home of a wicked person, the place of one who rejected God.' "
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