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