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