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18:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
18:2  “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterward we shall speak.
18:3  Why are we considered as animals? Why are we taken as stupid in your eyes?
18:4  “You who are tearing yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken because of you? Or will the rock be removed from its place?
18:5  Furthermore, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine.
18:6  The light becomes 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 thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall.
18:9  A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare takes hold of him.
18:10  His rope is hidden in the ground, and his trap on the path.
18:11  “Sudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels.
18:12  His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.
18:13  It consumes parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
18:14  He is torn from his tent in which he trusted, and it brought him to the king of terrors.
18:15  “Nothing remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.
18:16  His roots dry up below, and its branches wither away above.
18:17  His remembrance perishes from the earth, and there is not a name for him on the street.
18:18  “They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from the world.
18:19  There is no offspring for him nor a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.
18:20  Those of the west are appalled over his fate, and those of the east are seized with horror.
18:21  Surely these are the dwellings of the godless, and this is the dwelling place of him who knows not God.”