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Bildad from Shuah
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How long will you talk? Be sensible! Let us speak.
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Or do you think that we are dumb animals?
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You cut yourself in anger. Will that shake the earth or even move the rocks? *
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soon are snuffed out,
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leaving their tents dark.
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Their powerful legs become weak, and they stumble on schemes of their own doing. *
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Before they know it,
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they are trapped in a net,
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hidden along the path.
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Terror strikes and pursues from every side.
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Starving, they run, only to meet disaster,
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then afterwards to be eaten alive by death itself.
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Those sinners are dragged from the safety of their tents to die a gruesome death.
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Then their tents and possessions are burned to ashes,
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and they are left like trees, dried up from the roots.
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They are gone and forgotten,
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thrown far from the light into a world of darkness,
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without any children to carry on their name.
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Everyone, from east to west, is overwhelmed with horror.
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Such is the fate of sinners and their families who don't know God.
Scripture taken from the Contemporary English Version ®. Copyright © 1995 American Bible Society. Used by permission.
