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Job 18 (AMP)

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¹ THEN BILDAD the Shuhite answered, ² How long will you lay snares for words and have to hunt for your argument? Do some clear thinking, and then we will reply. ³ Why are we counted as beasts ? Why are we unclean in your sight? ⁴ You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place? ⁵ Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine. ⁶ The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp beside him shall be put out. ⁷ The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel and the plans in which he trusted shall bring about his downfall. ⁸ For the wicked is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a lattice-covered pit. ⁹ A trap will catch him by the heel, and a snare will lay hold on him. ¹⁰ A noose is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him in the way. ¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side and shall chase him at his heels. ¹² The strength shall be hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side . ¹³ By disease his strength and his skin shall be devoured; the firstborn of death shall consume his limbs. ¹⁴ He shall be rooted out of his dwelling place in which he trusted, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors . ¹⁵ There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his ; sulphur shall be scattered over his dwelling . ¹⁶ The roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off and wither. ¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. ¹⁸ He shall be thrust from light into darkness and driven out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall neither have son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned. ²⁰ They that come after shall be astonished and appalled at his day, as they that went before were seized with horror. ²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, and such is the place of him who knows not (recognizes not and honors not) God.