[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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Author: Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)
Source: ecmarsh.com