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| | Job 18:1 | Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
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| | Job 18:2 | "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
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| | Job 18:3 | Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
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| | Job 18:4 | You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
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| | Job 18:5 | "Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
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| | Job 18:6 | The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
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| | Job 18:7 | His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.
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| | Job 18:8 | For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.
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| | Job 18:9 | A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.
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| | Job 18:10 | A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
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| | Job 18:11 | Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
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| | Job 18:12 | His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
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| | Job 18:13 | By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
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| | Job 18:14 | He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.
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| | Job 18:15 | In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
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| | Job 18:16 | His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
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| | Job 18:17 | His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
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| | Job 18:18 | He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
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| | Job 18:19 | He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
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| | Job 18:20 | They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
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| | Job 18:21 | Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."
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