18:2 ‘How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we shall speak.
18:3 Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
18:4 You who tear yourself in your anger— shall the earth be forsaken because of you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
18:5 ‘Surely the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of their fire does not shine.
18:6 The light is dark in their tent, and the lamp above them is put out.
18:7 Their strong steps are shortened, and their own schemes throw them down.
18:8 For they are thrust into a net by their own feet, and they walk into a pitfall.
18:9 A trap seizes them by the heel; a snare lays hold of them.
18:10 A rope is hid for them in the ground, a trap for them in the path.
18:11 Terrors frighten them on every side, and chase them at their heels.
18:12 Their strength is consumed by hunger, and calamity is ready for their stumbling.
18:13 By disease their skin is consumed, the firstborn of Death consumes their limbs.
18:14 They are torn from the tent in which they trusted, and are brought to the king of terrors.
18:15 In their tents nothing remains; sulphur is scattered upon their habitations.
18:16 Their roots dry up beneath, and their branches wither above.
18:17 Their memory perishes from the earth, and they have no name in the street.
18:18 They are thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
18:19 They have no offspring or descendant among their people, and no survivor where they used to live.
18:20 They of the west are appalled at their fate, and horror seizes those of the east.
18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of those who do not know God.’
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