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And the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.

⁹Yet the righteous holdeth on his way,

And he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.

¹⁰But as for you all, do ye return, and come now;

And I shall not find a wise man among you.

¹¹My days are past, my purposes are broken off,

Even the thoughts of my heart.

¹²They change the night into day;

The light is short because of darkness.

¹³If I look for the nether-world as my house;

If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

¹⁴If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father',

To the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';

¹⁵Where then is my hope?

And as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁶They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world,

When we are at rest together in the dust.

18 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:

²How long will ye lay snares for words?

Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

³Wherefore are we counted as beasts,

And reputed dull in your sight?

⁴Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger,

Shall the earth be forsaken for thee?

Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

⁵Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,

And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁶The light shall be dark in his tent,

And his lamp over him shall be put out.

⁷The steps of his strength shall be straitened,

And his own counsel shall cast him down.

⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet,

And he walketh upon the toils.

⁹A gin shall take him by the heel,

And a snare shall lay hold on him.

¹⁰A noose is hid for him in the ground,

And a trap for him in the way.

¹¹Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side,

And shall entrap him at his feet.

¹²His trouble shall be ravenous,

And calamity shall be ready for his fall.

¹³It shall devour the members of his body,

Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

¹⁴That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent;

And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

¹⁵There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his;

Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

¹⁶His roots shall dry up beneath,

And above shall his branch wither.

¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth,

And he shall have no name abroad.

¹⁸He shall be driven from light into darkness,

And chased out of the world.

¹⁹He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people,

Nor any remaining in his dwellings.

²⁰They that come after shall be astonished at his day,

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