Verse 2
Job 18:2
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
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How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterward we will speak.
Original Language Text
hebrew
עַד אָ֤נָה תְּשִׂימ֣וּ/ן קִנְצֵ֣י לְ/מִלִּ֑ין תָּ֝בִ֗ינוּ וְ/אַחַ֥ר נְדַבֵּֽר
English Translation
How long will you set your mouth against words? We will understand, and afterward we will speak.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 18 Context
1
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterward we will speak.
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts, And are become unclean in your sight?
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Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be...
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
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The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
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A gin shall take him by the heel, And a snare shall lay hold on him.
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10
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.
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Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.
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12
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
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The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea, the firstborn of death shall devour his members.
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He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terro...
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There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habit...
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His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
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18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
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He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
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They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted.
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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God...
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