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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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