Job 18장
Bildad's Second Speech
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Then Bildad the Shuhite replied and said:
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When will you put an end to words? Reflect, and then we can have discussion.
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Why are we accounted like the beasts, their equals in your sight?
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You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be neglected on your account (or the rock be moved out of its place)?
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Truly, the light of the wicked is extinguished; no flame brightens his hearth.
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The light is darkened in his tent; in spite of him, his lamp goes out.
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His vigorous steps are hemmed in, and his own counsel casts him down.
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For he rushes headlong into a net, and he wanders into a pitfall.
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A trap seizes him by the heel, and a snare lays hold of him.
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A noose for him is hid on the ground, and the toils for him on the way.
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On every side terrors affright him; they harry him at each step.
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Disaster is ready at his side,
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the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
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Fiery destruction lodges in his tent, and marches him off to the king of terrors. He is plucked from the security of his tent;
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over his abode brimstone is scattered.
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Below, his roots dry up, and above, his branches wither.
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His memory perishes from the land, and he has no name on the earth.
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He is driven from light into darkness, and banished out of the world.
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He has neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any survior where once he dwelt.
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They who come after shall be appalled at his fate; they who went before are struck with horror.
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So is it then with the dwelling of the impious man, and such is the place of him who knows not God!
Job 18장
