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[1] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
[2] When will ye make an end of your words? Cause us to understand, and then we will speak.
[3] Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and are vile in your sight?
[4] Thou art as one that teareth his soul in his anger. Shall the earth be forsaken for thy sake? Or the rock removed out of his place?
[5] Yea, the light of the wicked shall be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
[6] The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.
[7] The steps of his strength shall be restrained, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
[8] For he is taken in the net by his feet, and he walketh upon the snares.
[9] The grenne shall take him by the heel, and the thief shall come upon him.
[10] A snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
[11] Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
[12] His strength shall be famine: and destruction shall be ready at his side.
[13] It shall devour the inner parts of his skin, and the first born of death shall devour his strength.
[14] His hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the king of fear.
[15] Fear shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
[16] His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut down.
[17] His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
[18] They shall drive him out of the light unto darkness, and chase him out of the world.
[19] He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any posterity in his dwellings.
[20] The posterity shall be astonied at his day, and fear shall come upon the ancient.
[21] Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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