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And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
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How long will ye make a hunt for words?{HR}Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
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Why are we accounted as cattle,{HR}Stopped up in your eyes?
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He teareth his soul in his anger:{HR}Shall the earth be forsaken for thee,{HR}And shall a rock be removed out of its place?
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,{HR}And the flame of his fire shall not shine.
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The light in his tabernacle shall be dark,{HR}And his lamp shall be put out with him.
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The steps of his strength shall be straitened,{HR}And his own counsel shall cast him down.
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For by his feet is he driven into a net,{HR}And he walketh over the meshes;
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The trap seizeth on his heel;{HR}The snare prevaileth over him;
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His cord [is] hidden in the earth,{HR}And his trap upon the pathway.
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Terrors shall terrify him around,{HR}And scare him at his footsteps.
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His calamity [is] hungry,{HR}And destruction [is] ready at his side.
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The first-born of death devoureth the parts of his skin —{HR}Devoureth his parts.
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His confidence shall be torn out of his tent,{HR}And shall march him off to the king of terrors;
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There shall dwell in his tent what [is] not his;{HR}On his dwelling shall sulphur be scattered.
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Beneath, his roots shall be dried up,{HR}And above, his branch shall be cut off.
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His memorial shall perish from the earth,{HR}And he shall have no name on the plain.
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They shall drive him from light into darkness,{HR}And shall chase him from the world.
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No shoot nor sprout shall he have among his people,{HR}And no escaped one in his dwellings.
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At his day they of the west will be astonished,{HR}And they of the east take fright.
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Surely so the dwellings of the wicked,{HR}And this the place of [him that] knoweth not God.