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mountains to satisfy you?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.5" class="v18_18_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.18.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The light of the wicked will still be put out;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_5">its flame will never burn again.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.6" class="v18_18_6">6</span>The lamp in their tents will be darkened.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.7" class="v18_18_7">7</span>Their steps were firm, but now they stumble;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_7">they fall—victims of their own advice.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.8" class="v18_18_8">8</span>They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.9" class="v18_18_9">9</span>a trap catches their heels and holds them.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.10" class="v18_18_10">10</span>On the ground a snare is hidden;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_10">a trap has been set in their path.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.11" class="v18_18_11">11</span>All around them terror is waiting;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_11">it follows them at every step.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.12" class="v18_18_12">12</span>They used to be rich, but now they go hungry;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_12">disaster stands and waits at their side.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.13" class="v18_18_13">13</span>A deadly disease spreads over their bodies</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_13">and causes their arms and legs to rot.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.14" class="v18_18_14">14</span>They are torn from the tents where they lived secure,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_14">and are dragged off to face King Death.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.15" class="v18_18_15">15</span>Now anyone may live in their tents—<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.18.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_15">after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect them!<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.18.15!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.16" class="v18_18_16">16</span>Their roots and branches are withered and dry.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.17" class="v18_18_17">17</span>Their fame is ended at home and abroad;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_17">no one remembers them any more.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.18" class="v18_18_18">18</span>They will be driven out of the land of the living,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_18">driven from light into darkness.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.19" class="v18_18_19">19</span>They have no descendants, no survivors.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.20" class="v18_18_20">20</span>From east to west, all who hear of their fate</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_20">shudder and tremble with fear.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_18_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.18.21" class="v18_18_21">21</span>That is the fate of evil people,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_18_21">the fate of those who care nothing for God.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">18.15: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Now anyone may live in their tents; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">18.15: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">to disinfect them: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Sulfur was used in the ancient world as a disinfectant and to clean rooms that had contained corpses.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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