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18:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
18:2  “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
18:3  Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
18:4  You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
18:5  “Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
18:6  The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
18:7  His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.
18:8  For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.
18:9  A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.
18:10  A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
18:11  Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
18:12  His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
18:13  By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
18:14  He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.
18:15  In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
18:16  His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
18:17  His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
18:18  He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
18:19  He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
18:20  They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
18:21  Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God.”