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Job 18 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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