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end to <i>your</i> words? <p class="indent2">Show understanding and then we can talk. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Why are we regarded as beasts, <p class="indent2">As dense in your eyes? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>O <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>you who tear yourself in your anger— <p class="indent2">For your sake is the earth to be forsaken, <p class="indent2">Or the rock to be moved from its place? <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, <p class="indent2">And the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>flame of his fire gives no light. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The light in his tent is darkened, <p class="indent2">And his lamp goes out above him. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>His <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>vigorous stride is shortened, <p class="indent2">And his own counsel brings him down. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, <p class="indent2">And he steps on the netting. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A snare seizes <i>him</i> by the heel, <p class="indent2"><i>And</i> a device snaps shut on him. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>A rope for him is hidden in the ground, <p class="indent2">And a trap for him on the path. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>All around terrors frighten him, <p class="indent2">And harass him at every step. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His vigor is famished, <p class="indent2">And disaster is ready at his side. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The firstborn of death eats parts of his skin; <p class="indent2">It eats parts of him. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He is torn from <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the security of his tent, <p class="indent2">And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>they march him in step before the king of terrors. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>There dwells in his tent nothing of his; <p class="indent2">Brimstone is scattered on his abode. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>His roots are dried below, <p class="indent2">And his branch is cut off above. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Memory of him perishes from the earth, <p class="indent2">And he has no name abroad. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>He is driven from light into darkness, <p class="indent2">And chased from the inhabited world. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He has neither offspring nor posterity among his people, <p class="indent2">Nor any survivor where he sojourned. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Those <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>in the west are appalled at his <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>fate, <p class="indent2">And those <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>in the east are seized with horror. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Surely such are the dwellings of the unjust, <p class="indent2">And this is the place of him who does not know God.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>he...tears himself...his</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>spark</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>steps of his strength</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>his tent his trust</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>you or she shall march</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>Fire dwells in his tent</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>They drive him...And chase him</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>who come after</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> 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