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Job · Chapter 18
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
How long
will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts,
and reputed vile in your sight?
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
The light shall be dark in his mishkan, and his candle shall be put out with him.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
The gin shall take
him by the heel,
and the robber shall prevail against him.
The snare
is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction
shall be
ready at his side.
It shall devour the strength of his skin:
even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his mishkan, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
It shall dwell in his mishkan, because
it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
They that come after
him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
Surely such
are the dwellings of the wicked, and this
is the place
of him that knoweth not Elohim.
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Job · Chapter 19
Then Job answered and said,
How long will ye vex my nephesh, and break me in pieces with words?
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed
that
ye make yourselves strange to me.
And be it indeed
that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
If indeed ye will magnify
yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Know now that Elohim hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but
there is no judgment.
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown
from
my head.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as
one of his enemies.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my mishkan.
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
I called my servant, and he gave
me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s
sake of mine own body.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of Elohim hath touched me.
Why do ye persecute me as Elohim, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
For I know
that my redeemer liveth, and
that he shall stand at the latter
day upon the earth:
And
though after my skin
worms destroy this
body, yet in my flesh shall I see Elohim:
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another;
though my reins be consumed within me.
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath
bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know
there is a judgment.
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Job · Chapter 20
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for
this
I make haste.
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Knowest thou
not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
That the triumphing of the wicked
is short, and the joy of the hypocrite
but for a moment?
Though his excellency mount up to the shamayim, and his head reach unto the clouds;
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where
is he?
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
The eye also
which saw him shall
see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
His bones are full
of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,
though he hide it under his tongue;
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned,
it is the gall of asps within him.
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: Elohim shall cast them out of his belly.
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow
it down: according to
his substance
shall the restitution
be, and he shall not rejoice
therein.
Because he hath oppressed
and hath forsaken the poor;
because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
When he is about to fill his belly,
Elohim shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain
it upon him while he is eating.
He shall flee from the iron weapon,
and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors
are upon him.
All darkness
shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his mishkan.
The shamayim shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
The increase of his house shall depart,
and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
This
is the portion of a wicked man from Elohim, and the heritage appointed unto him by Elohim.