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Job 18
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1Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
3For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?
3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
4Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?
4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
5But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].
7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.
8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,
11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12[vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king .
14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above .
16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
21These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.