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