Job:18

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* Then answered Bildad the Shuhite , and said , * How long [will it be ere ] (note :)Who count yourselves just as ( Job_12:4 ).(:note ) ye make an end of words ? Whom you take to be only beasts , as in ( Job_12:7 ). mark , and afterwards we will speak . * Wherefore are wee counted as beastes , and are vile in your sight ? * * Yea , the light of the wicked shall be (note :)When the wicked is in his prosperity , then God changes his state : and this is his ordinary working for their sins .(:note ) put out , and the spark of his fire shall not shine . * The light shalbe darke in his dwelling , and his candle shalbe put out with him . * The steps of his strength shalbe restrained , and his owne counsell shall cast him downe . * For he is cast into a net by his own feet , and he (note :)Meaning , that the wicked are in continual danger .(:note ) walketh upon a snare . * The grenne shall take him by the heele , and the theefe shall come vpon him . * A snare is layed for him in the ground , and a trappe for him in the way . * Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side , and shall driue him to his feete . * His strength shall be (note :)That which should nourish him will be consumed by famine .(:note ) hungerbitten , and destruction [shall be ] ready at his side . * It shall devour the strength of his skin : [even ] the (note :)That is , some strong and violent death will consume his strength : or as the Hebrew word signifies his members or parts .(:note ) firstborn of death shall devour his strength . * His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle , and it shall bring him to the (note :)That is , with great fear .(:note ) king of terrors . * It shall dwell in his tabernacle , because [it is ] none of his : (note :)Though all the world would favour him , yet God would destroy him and his .(:note ) brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation . * His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath , and aboue shall his branche be cut downe . * His remembrance shall perish from the earth , and he shall haue no name in the streete . * He shall be driven from (note :)He will fall from prosperity to adversity .(:note ) light into darkness , and chased out of the world . * Hee shall neither haue sonne nor nephewe among his people , nor any posteritie in his dwellings . * They that come after [him ] shall be astonied at his (note :)When they will see what came to him .(:note ) day , as they that went before were affrighted . * Surely such are the habitations of the wicked , and this is the place of him that knoweth not God .

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