Bildad: The wicked will be punished
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And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
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“When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
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Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
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He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?
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Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
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The light has been dark in his tent, || And his lamp over him is extinguished.
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The steps of his strength are restricted, || And his own counsel casts him down.
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For he is sent into a net by his own feet, || And he habitually walks on a snare.
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A trap seizes on the heel, || The designing prevails over him.
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His cord is hidden in the earth, || And his trap on the path.
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Terrors have terrified him all around, || And they have scattered him—at his feet.
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His sorrow is hungry, || And calamity is ready at his side.
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It consumes the parts of his skin, || Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
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His confidence is drawn from his tent, || And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.
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It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, || Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.
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From beneath his roots are dried up, || And from above his crop is cut off.
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His memorial has perished from the land, || And he has no name on the street.
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They thrust him from light to darkness, || And cast him out from the habitable earth.
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He has no continuator, || Nor successor among his people, || And none is remaining in his dwellings.
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At this day, those [in the] west have been astonished, || And those [in the] east have taken fright.
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Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, || And this [is] the place God has not known.”
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