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The Second Cycle of Debate: The Second Attack of Bildad
Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,
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Iyub 18
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How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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The Pride of the Earthly Philosophers
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
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The Accusation of Self-Destruction
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
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The Extinguished Light
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
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The Snare of the Adversary
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
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The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
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The Surrounding Terrors
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
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His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
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The Firstborn of Death
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
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The King of Terrors
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
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The Brimstone Protocol
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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The Severing of the Root and Branch
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
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The Erasure of the Memorial
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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The Eradication of the Seed
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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The Astonishment of the Generations
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
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The Verdict on the Ignorant
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not El.