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Job 18
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1Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
2“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
3For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?
3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean 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?
4You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
5But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
5“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
6His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
6The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
7Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].
7The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will 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 wanders into its mesh.
9And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
9A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
10His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
10A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
11Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,
11Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
12[vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
12His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
13Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
13The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
14And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king .
14He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
15It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
15There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
16His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
16His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
17Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
17His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
18Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
18He will 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 will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
20But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
20Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
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 unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”