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Job 18

¹Job, can't people like you ever be quiet? If you stopped to listen, we could talk to you.

³What makes you think we are as stupid as cattle?

⁴You are only hurting yourself with your anger. Will the earth be deserted because you are angry? Will God move mountains to satisfy you?

⁵The light of the wicked will still be put out; its flame will never burn again.

⁶The lamp in their tents will be darkened.

⁷Their steps were firm, but now they stumble; they fall---victims of their own advice.

⁸They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;

⁹a trap catches their heels and holds them.

¹⁰On the ground a snare is hidden; a trap has been set in their path.

¹¹All around them terror is waiting; it follows them at every step.

¹²They used to be rich, but now they go hungry; disaster stands and waits at their side.

¹³A deadly disease spreads over their bodies and causes their arms and legs to rot.

¹⁴They are torn from the tents where they lived secure, and are dragged off to face King Death.

¹⁵Now anyone may live in their tents--- after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect them!

¹⁶Their roots and branches are withered and dry.

¹⁷Their fame is ended at home and abroad; no one remembers them any more.

¹⁸They will be driven out of the land of the living, driven from light into darkness.

¹⁹They have no descendants, no survivors.

²⁰From east to west, all who hear of their fate shudder and tremble with fear.

²¹That is the fate of evil people, the fate of those who care nothing for God.