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Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:
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What prevents you others from saying something? Think -- for it is our turn to speak!
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Why do you regard us as animals, considering us no more than brutes?
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Tear yourself to pieces if you will, but the world, for all your rage, will not turn to desert, the rocks will not shift from their places.
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The light of the wicked must certainly be put out, the lamp that gives him light cease to shine.
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In his tent the light is dimmed, the lamp that shone on him is snuffed.
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His vigorous stride loses its power, his own designs falter.
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For into the net his own feet carry him, he walks into the snares.
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A spring grips him by the heel, a trap snaps shut, and he is caught.
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Hidden in the ground is a snare to catch him, pitfalls lie across his path.
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Terrors threaten him from all sides following him step by step.
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Hunger becomes his companion, by his side Disaster stands.
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Disease devours his skin, Death's First-Born gnaws his limbs.
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He will be torn from the shelter of his tent, and you will drag him to the King of Terrors.
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You can live in the tent, since it is no longer his, and brimstone will be scattered on his sheepfold.
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Below, his roots dry out and his branches are blasted above.
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His memory fades from the land, his name is forgotten in the countryside.
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Driven from the light into the darkness, he is banished from the world,
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without issue or posterity among his own people or a single survivor where he used to live.
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His end appals the west and fills the east with terror.
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Such indeed is the fate of the places where wickedness dwells -- the home of everyone who knows not God.
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