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Job Chapter: 18

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!'" HKJob Answers BildadHK I Call for Help and No One Bothers

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