Job 18
NASB
Job 18:2
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"How long will you hunt for words? Show understanding and then we can talk.
Job 18:3
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"Why are we regarded as beasts, As stupid in your eyes?
Job 18:4
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"O you who tear yourself in your anger-- For your sake is the earth to be abandoned, Or the rock to be moved from its place?
Job 18:5
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"Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, And the flame of his fire gives no light.
Job 18:6
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"The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him.
Job 18:7
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"His vigorous stride is shortened, And his own scheme brings him down.
Job 18:8
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"For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.
Job 18:9
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"A snare seizes {him} by the heel, {And} a trap snaps shut on him.
Job 18:10
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"A noose for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the path.
Job 18:11
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"All around terrors frighten him, And harry him at every step.
Job 18:12
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"His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side.
Job 18:13
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"His skin is devoured by disease, The firstborn of death devours his limbs.
Job 18:14
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"He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors.
Job 18:15
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"There dwells in his tent nothing of his; Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.
Job 18:16
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"His roots are dried below, And his branch is cut off above.
Job 18:17
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"Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.
Job 18:18
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"He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.
Job 18:19
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"He has no offspring or posterity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned.
Job 18:20
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"Those in the west are appalled at his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror.
Job 18:21
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"Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God."
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