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Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

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How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

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Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

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But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

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For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

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The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

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The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

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His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

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His foot is taken in the net he comes into its grip.

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The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

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He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

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His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

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His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

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He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

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In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

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Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

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His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

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He is sent away from the light into the dark he is forced out of the world.

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He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

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At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

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Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.