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[1] Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
[2]How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
[3]For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?
[4]Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?
[5]But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
[6]His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
[7]Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive him.
[8]His foot also has been caught in a snare, and let it be entangled in a net.
[9]And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
[10]His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
[11]Let pains destroy him round about, and let many enemies come about him,
[12]vex him with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
[13]Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
[14]And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
[15]It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
[16]His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
[17]Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
[18]Let one drive him from light into darkness.
[19]He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
[20]But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
[21]These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
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