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Job 18 (MSG)

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¹ Bildad from Shuhah chimed in: ² "How monotonous these word games are getting! Get serious! We need to get down to business. ³ Why do you treat your friends like slow-witted animals? You look down on us as if we don't know anything. ⁴ Why are you working yourself up like this? Do you want the world redesigned to suit you? Should reality be suspended to accommodate you? ⁵ "Here's the rule: The light of the wicked is put out. Their flame dies down and is extinguished. ⁶ Their house goes dark-- every lamp in the place goes out. ⁷ Their strong strides weaken, falter; they stumble into their own traps. ⁸ They get all tangled up in their own red tape, ⁹ Their feet are grabbed and caught, their necks in a noose. ¹⁰ They trip on ropes they've hidden, and fall into pits they've dug themselves. ¹¹ Terrors come at them from all sides. They run helter-skelter. ¹² The hungry grave is ready to gobble them up for supper, ¹³ To lay them out for a gourmet meal, a treat for ravenous Death. ¹⁴ They are snatched from their home sweet home and marched straight to the death house. ¹⁵ Their lives go up in smoke; acid rain soaks their ruins. ¹⁶ Their roots rot and their branches wither. ¹⁷ They'll never again be remembered-- nameless in unmarked graves. ¹⁸ They are plunged from light into darkness, banished from the world. ¹⁹ And they leave empty-handed--not one single child-- nothing to show for their life on this earth. ²⁰ Westerners are aghast at their fate, easterners are horrified: ²¹ 'Oh no! So this is what happens to perverse people. This is how the God-ignorant end up!'"