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Job 18

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

18:1

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

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18:2

How long wilt thou continue? forbear, that we also may speak.

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18:3

For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

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18:4

Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

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18:5

But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

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18:6

His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

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18:7

Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].

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18:8

His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.

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18:9

And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

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18:10

His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

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18:11

Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,

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18:12

[vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

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18:13

Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

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18:14

And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.

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18:15

It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

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18:16

His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

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18:17

Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

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18:18

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

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18:19

He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

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18:20

But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

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18:21

These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

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