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Job 18 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:1 - Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:2 - How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 - Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 - 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?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:5 - For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:6 - The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:7 - The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:8 - His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:9 - His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:10 - The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11 - He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:12 - His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:13 - His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:14 - He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:15 - In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:16 - Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:17 - His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 - He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:19 - He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:20 - At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:21 - 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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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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