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| Job 18:1 | Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, | Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said, |
| Job 18:2 | "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. | How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds. |
| Job 18:3 | Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight? | Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge? |
| Job 18:4 | You who tear yourself in your anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? | But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place? |
| Job 18:5 | "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine. | For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining. |
| Job 18:6 | The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out. | The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out. |
| Job 18:7 | The steps of his strength shall be shortened, His own counsel shall cast him down. | The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him. |
| Job 18:8 | For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh. | His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords. |
| Job 18:9 | A snare shall take him by the heel; A trap shall lay hold on him. | His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip. |
| Job 18:10 | A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way. | The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way. |
| Job 18:11 | Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels. | He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step. |
| Job 18:12 | His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side. | His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep. |
| Job 18:13 | The members of his body shall be devoured, The firstborn of death shall devour his members. | His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases. |
| Job 18:14 | He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors. | He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears. |
| Job 18:15 | There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation. | In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house. |
| Job 18:16 | His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off. | Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off. |
| Job 18:17 | His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street. | His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name. |
| Job 18:18 | He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. | He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world. |
| Job 18:19 | He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned. | He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name. |
| Job 18:20 | Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, As those who went before were frightened. | At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear. |
| Job 18:21 | Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn't know God." | Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God. |
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