# Job 18 
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1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 
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2. “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak. 
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3. Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight? 
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4. You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place? 
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5. “Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine. 
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6. The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out. 
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7. His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down. 
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8. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh. 
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9. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him. 
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10. A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path. 
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11. Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels. 
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12. His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling. 
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13. It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs. 
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14. He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors. 
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15. In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation. 
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16. His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above. 
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17. His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street. 
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18. He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world. 
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19. He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live. 
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20. They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east. 
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21. Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God.” 

(ESV)