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18:1  The further reply of Bildad the Shuhite:
18:2  “Who are you trying to fool? Speak some sense if you want us to answer!
18:3  Have we become like animals to you, stupid and dumb?
18:4  Just because you tear your clothes in anger, is this going to start an earthquake? Shall we all go and hide?
18:5  “The truth remains that if you do not prosper, it is because you are wicked. And your bright flame shall be put out.
18:6  There will be darkness in every home where there is wickedness.
18:7  “The confident stride of the wicked man will be shortened; he will realize his failing strength.
18:8  He walks into traps, and robbers will ambush him.
18:9  He walks into traps, and robbers will ambush him.
18:10  There is a booby trap in every path he takes.
18:11  He has good cause for fear—his enemy is close behind him!
18:12  “His vigor is depleted by hunger; calamity stands ready to pounce upon him.
18:13  His skin is eaten by disease. Death shall devour him.
18:14  The wealth he trusted in shall reject him, and he shall be brought down to the king of terrors.
18:15  His home shall disappear beneath a fiery barrage of brimstone.
18:16  He shall die from the roots up, and all his branches will be lopped off.
18:17  “All memory of his existence will perish from the earth; no one will remember him.
18:18  He will be driven out from the kingdom of light into darkness and chased out of the world.
18:19  He will have neither son nor grandson left, nor any other relatives.
18:20  Old and young alike will be horrified by his fate.
18:21  Yes, that is what happens to sinners, to those rejecting God.”