| 1 ¶ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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| 2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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| 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
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| 4 He teareth himself1 in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
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| 5 ¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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| 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle2 shall be put out with him.
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| 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
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| 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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| 9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
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| 10 The snare is laid3 for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
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| 11 ¶ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive4 him to his feet.
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| 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
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| 13 It shall devour the strength5 of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
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| 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
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| 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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| 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
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| 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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| 18 He6 shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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| 19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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| 20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went7 before were8 affrighted.
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| 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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