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Think it through, and then we'll talk.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Why do you think of us as cattle? Why are we considered stupid in your eyes?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Why do you rip yourself apart in anger? Should the earth be abandoned for your sake or a boulder be dislodged?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"Indeed, the light of the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire stops glowing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The light in his tent becomes dark, and the lamp above him is snuffed out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>"His healthy stride is shortened, and his own planning trips him up.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>His own feet get him tangled in a net as he walks around on its webbing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A trap catches his heel. A snare holds him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>A rope is hidden on the ground for him. A trap is on his path [to catch] him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>"Terrors suddenly pounce on him from every side and chase him every step he takes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Hunger undermines his strength. Disaster is waiting beside him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His skin is eaten away by disease. Death's firstborn son eats away at the limbs of his body.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He is dragged from the safety of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Fire lives in his tent. Sulfur is scattered over his home.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>His roots dry up under him. His branches wither over him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All memory about him will vanish from the earth, and his reputation will not be known on the street corner.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He will be driven from the light into the dark and chased out of the world.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He will not have any children or descendants among his people or any survivor where he used to live.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>People in the west are shocked by what happens to him. People in the east are seized with horror.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This is what happens to the homes of wicked people and to those who do not know God."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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