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The Book of Job

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- Chapter 18 -

Bildad: The wicked will be punished

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Then Bildad replied again:
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“Please stop talking! If you would stop talking and listen, we could tell you something.
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Why do you think that we are as stupid as cattle and as unrighteous?
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By being very angry, you are only hurting yourself. Do you think that everyone on the earth must leave to prove that you are right, or do you think that God must move the rocks in the mountains to please you?
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What will happen is that the lives of wicked people like you end as quickly as we can put out a light or extinguish the flame of a fire.
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When the lamps above them in their tents are extinguished, there will be no light in those tents.
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While they are alive, they walk confidently, but later it will be as though they stumbled and fell, because they themselves do not pay attention to the advice that they give to others.
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It will be as though they had walked into their own net or had fallen into a pit that they themselves dug.
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It will be as though a trap had grabbed their heels and held them fast,
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as though the end of a rope that was hidden on the ground had sprung up and seized them when they walked on it.
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Everywhere they go, there will be things that cause them to be terrified; it will be as though those things were pursuing them and biting at their heels.
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They will become hungry, with the result that they will be strong no longer. They will continually experience disasters.
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Diseases will spread all over their skin; diseases will cause their bodies to decay.
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When they die, they will be snatched away from their tents and brought to the one who rules over the dead.
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Then other people will live in their tents, but only after they sprinkle sulfur on those tents to get rid of the disease!
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Because they will die and leave no descendants, they will be like trees whose roots have dried up and whose branches have all withered.
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No one on the earth will remember them anymore; no one on any street will even remember their names.
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They will have to leave the earth, where there is light, and rush into the place where it is dark.
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They will have no children or grandchildren, no descendants where they will have previously lived.
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People from the east to the west who hear about what happened to them, everyone, will be shocked and horrified.
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This is what happens to unrighteous people like you, people who do not know God.”
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Bildad: The wicked will be punished

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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
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“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
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Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
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You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
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“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
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The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
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The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
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A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
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A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
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Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
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His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
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The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
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He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
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There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
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His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
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His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
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He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
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Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
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