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18:1  Job, can't people like you ever be quiet? If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you.
18:2  Job, can't people like you ever be quiet? If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you.
18:3  What makes you think we are as stupid as cattle?
18:4  You are only hurting yourself with your anger. Will the earth be deserted because you are angry? Will God move mountains to satisfy you?
18:5  The light of the wicked will still be put out; its flame will never burn again.
18:6  The lamp in their tents will be darkened.
18:7  Their steps were firm, but now they stumble; they fall—victims of their own advice.
18:8  They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;
18:9  a trap catches their heels and holds them.
18:10  On the ground a snare is hidden; a trap has been set in their path.
18:11  All around them terror is waiting; it follows them at every step.
18:12  They used to be rich, but now they go hungry; disaster stands and waits at their side.
18:13  A deadly disease spreads over their bodies and causes their arms and legs to rot.
18:14  They are torn from the tents where they lived secure, and are dragged off to face King Death.
18:15  Now anyone may live in their tents— after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect them!
18:16  Their roots and branches are withered and dry.
18:17  Their fame is ended at home and abroad; no one remembers them any more.
18:18  They will be driven out of the land of the living, driven from light into darkness.
18:19  They have no descendants, no survivors.
18:20  From east to west, all who hear of their fate shudder and tremble with fear.
18:21  That is the fate of evil people, the fate of those who care nothing for God.