Hiob 18

¹Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
²How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
³Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?
⁴Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
⁵Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
⁶The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
⁷The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.
⁹A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.
¹⁰A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
¹¹Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.
¹²His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.
¹³It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
¹⁴That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
¹⁵There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
¹⁶His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.
¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad.
¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
¹⁹He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
²⁰They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.
²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

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