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Job 18

King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible

18:1
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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18:2
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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18:3
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
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18:4
He teareth himself (note: Heb. his soul) in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
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18:5
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle (note: Or, lamp) shall be put out with him.
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18:7
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
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18:8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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18:9
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
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18:10
The snare is laid (note: Heb. hidden) for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
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18:11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him (note: Heb. scatter him) to his feet.
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18:12
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
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18:13
It shall devour the strength (note: Heb. bars) of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
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18:14
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
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18:15
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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18:16
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
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18:17
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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18:18
He shall be driven (note: Heb. they shall drive him) from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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18:19
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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18:20
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before (note: Or, lived with him) were affrighted.
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18:21
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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