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1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
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2. "How long will you keep talking? Show understanding and then we can talk.
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3. Why are we thought of as animals? Why do you see us as not being able to think?
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4. You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be left alone because of you? Or will the rocks be moved from their place?
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5. "Yes, the light of the sinful is put out. His fire does not give light.
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6. The light in his tent is made dark, and his lamp goes out above him.
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7. His strong steps are made short, and his own plans make him fall.
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8. For he is thrown down into a net by his own feet and walks on it.
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9. A trap catches him by the foot and holds him.
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10. A tied rope is hidden in the ground for him. A trap is set for him on the path.
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11. He is filled with fear on every side. It follows him at every step.
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12. His strength leaves him because trouble is waiting for him at every side.
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13. His skin is eaten by disease and the beginning of death eats his legs.
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14. He is taken away from his tent where he was safe, and is brought to the king of fears.
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15. Fire destroys everything in his tent and sulphur is spread where he lives.
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16. His roots are dried below and his branch is cut off above.
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17. No one on earth will remember him. His name will not be known in the land.
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18. He is sent from light into darkness, and driven away from where people live.
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19. He has no children among his people to carry on his name where he lived.
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20. Those in the west are surprised and afraid at what happened to him. And those in the east are filled with fear.
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21. For sure, these are the houses of the sinful. This is the place of him who does not know God."
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