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18:1  Bildad from Shuah said:
18:2  How long will you talk? Be sensible! Let us speak.
18:3  Or do you think that we are dumb animals?
18:4  You cut yourself in anger. Will that shake the earth or even move the rocks? *
18:5  The lamps of sinful people soon are snuffed out,
18:6  leaving their tents dark.
18:7  Their powerful legs become weak, and they stumble on schemes of their own doing. *
18:8  Before they know it,
18:9  they are trapped in a net,
18:10  hidden along the path.
18:11  Terror strikes and pursues from every side.
18:12  Starving, they run, only to meet disaster,
18:13  then afterwards to be eaten alive by death itself.
18:14  Those sinners are dragged from the safety of their tents to die a gruesome death.
18:15  Then their tents and possessions are burned to ashes,
18:16  and they are left like trees, dried up from the roots.
18:17  They are gone and forgotten,
18:18  thrown far from the light into a world of darkness,
18:19  without any children to carry on their name.
18:20  Everyone, from east to west, is overwhelmed with horror.
18:21  Such is the fate of sinners and their families who don't know God.