Job 18

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¹ But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:	¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
² How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.	² "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
³ Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?	³ Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
⁴ You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?	⁴ You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
⁵ Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?	⁵ "Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
⁶ Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.	⁶ The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
⁷ His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.	⁷ His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.
⁸ For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.	⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.
⁹ His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.	⁹ A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.
¹⁰ A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.	¹⁰ A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
¹¹ Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.	¹¹ Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
¹² Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.	¹² His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
¹³ Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.	¹³ By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
¹⁴ Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.	¹⁴ He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.
¹⁵ Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.	¹⁵ In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
¹⁶ Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.	¹⁶ His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
¹⁷ Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.	¹⁷ His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
¹⁸ He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.	¹⁸ He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
¹⁹ Neither his offspring, nor his descendents, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.	¹⁹ He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
²⁰ The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.	²⁰ They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
²¹ And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.	²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."

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