Job 18
Bildad Describes the
Fate of the Wicked |
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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
said,
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How long will it be ere ye make an
end of words?
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Mark, and afterward we will
speak. |
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts,
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and reputed vile in your
sight? |
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He teareth himself in his anger:
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shall the earth be forsaken for thee? |
And shall the rock be removed out of his place?
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put
out,
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and the spark of his fire shall not
shine. |
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The light shall be dark in his
tabernacle,
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and his candle shall be put out with
him. |
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The steps of his strength shall be
straitened,
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and his own counsel shall cast him
down. |
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For he is cast into a net by his own
feet,
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and he walketh upon a
snare. |
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The gin shall take him by the
heel,
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and the robber shall prevail against
him. |
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The snare is laid for him in the
ground,
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and a trap for him in the
way. |
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Terrors shall make him afraid on every
side,
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and shall drive him to his
feet. |
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His strength shall be hunger-bitten,
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and destruction shall be ready at his
side. |
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It shall devour the strength of his
skin:
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even the firstborn of death shall devour his
strength. |
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His confidence shall be rooted out of his
tabernacle,
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and it shall bring him to the king of
terrors. |
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It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his:
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brimstone shall be scattered upon his
habitation. |
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His roots shall be dried up beneath,
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and above shall his branch be cut
off. |
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His remembrance shall perish from the
earth,
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and he shall have no name in the
street. |
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He shall be driven from light into
darkness,
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and chased out of the
world. |
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He shall neither have son nor nephew
among his people,
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nor any remaining in his
dwellings. |
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They that come after him shall be
astonished at his day,
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as they that went before were
affrighted. |
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Surely such are the dwellings of
the wicked,
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and this is the place of him that knoweth not
God. |
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