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18:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuchi, and said,
18:2  Ad anah (Until when, how long) will it be ere ye make an end of words? Gain binah, and afterwards we will speak.
18:3  Why are we counted as behemah (cattle), and reputed stupid in your sight?
18:4  Thou art he who teareth his nefesh in his anger; shall eretz (earth) be forsaken for thee? And shall the tzur be removed out of its place?
18:5  Yea, the ohr of the resha’im shall be put out, and the flame of his eish shall not burn.
18:6  The ohr shall be choshech in his ohel, and his ner (lamp) above him is extinguished.
18:7  The steps of his vigor shall be shortened, and his own etzah (counsel, scheme) shall cast him down.
18:8  For he is cast into a reshet by his own raglayim, and he walketh into a pitfall.
18:9  The pach (trap) shall take him by the akev (heel), and the snare shall prevail against him.
18:10  The noose is laid for him ba’aretz (on the ground), and a trap for him in the path.
18:11  Ballahot (terrors, terrible thoughts) shall make him afraid on every side, and shall dog him behind his feet.
18:12  Calamity is ra’ev (hungry) for him, and destruction shall be ready for his fall.
18:13  It shall devour the limbs of his ohr (skin); even the bechor mavet (plague) shall devour his members.
18:14  That in which he trusted is rooted out of his ohel, and it shall march him to Melech Ballahot (King of Terrors).
18:15  In his ohel nothing dwells; gofrit (brimstone) is scattered upon his habitation.
18:16  His shorashim shall be dried up beneath, and above his branch shall wither.
18:17  His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no shem in the land.
18:18  He shall be driven from ohr into choshech, and chased out of the tevel.
18:19  He shall neither have offspring nor descendent among his am (people), nor is there a sarid in his dwellings.
18:20  The acharonim shall be astonished at his yom, as the kadmonim were affrighted.
18:21  Surely such are the mishkenot (dwellings) of the resha’im, and this is the place of him that has no da’as of El.