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| 1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:– |
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| 2 How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak. |
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| 3 Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes? |
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| 4 One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger,–For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place? |
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| 5 Even the light of the lawless, shall go out,–Neither shall shine the flame of his fire; |
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| 6 The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out; |
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| 7 The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down; |
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| 8 For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth; |
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| 9 There catcheth him–by the heel–a gin, there holdeth him fast–a noose: |
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| 10 Concealed in the ground is a cord for him,–and a snare for him, on the path. |
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| 11 Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet. |
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| 12 Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side; |
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| 13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members; |
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| 14 Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors; |
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| 15 There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling; |
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| 16 Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch; |
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| 17 His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field; |
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| 18 Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him; |
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| 19 Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn: |
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| 20 Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized. |
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| 21 Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD. |
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