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| [1]And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: -- |
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| [2]When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak. |
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| [3]Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes! |
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| [4](He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place? |
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| [5]Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. |
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| [6]The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished. |
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| [7]Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel. |
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| [8]For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. |
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| [9]Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing. |
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| [10]Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path. |
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| [11]Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet. |
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| [12]Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side. |
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| [13]It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born. |
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| [14]Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors. |
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| [15]It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur. |
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| [16]From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. |
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| [17]His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. |
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| [18]They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out. |
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| [19]He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings. |
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| [20]At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright. |
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| [21]Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known. |
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