## Bildad Speaks of the Downfall of the Wicked 

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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 

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"How long until you put an end to _your_ words? Show understanding and then we can talk. 

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Why are we regarded as beasts, As dense in your eyes? 

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O you who tear yourself in your anger-- For your sake is the earth to be forsaken, Or the rock to be moved from its place? 

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"Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, And the flame of his fire gives no light. 

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The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him. 

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His vigorous stride is shortened, And his own counsel brings him down. 

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For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the netting. 

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A snare seizes _him_ by the heel, _And_ a device snaps shut on him. 

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A rope for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the path. 

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All around terrors frighten him, And harass him at every step. 

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His vigor is famished, And disaster is ready at his side. 

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The firstborn of death eats parts of his skin; It eats parts of him. 

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He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him in step before the king of terrors. 

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There dwells in his tent nothing of his; Brimstone is scattered on his abode. 

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His roots are dried below, And his branch is cut off above. 

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Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad. 

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He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world. 

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He has neither offspring nor posterity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned. 

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Those in the west are appalled at his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror. 

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Surely such are the dwellings of the unjust, And this is the place of him who does not know God."