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17.8 :And the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.
 * Yet the righteous holdeth on his way,
 * And he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.
 * But as for you all, do ye return, and come now;
 * And I shall not find a wise man among you.
 * My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
 * Even the thoughts of my heart.
 * They change the night into day;
 * The light is short because of darkness.
 * If I look for the nether-world as my house;
 * If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
 * If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father',
 * To the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';
 * Where then is my hope?
 * And as for my hope, who shall see it?
 * They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world,
 * When we are at rest together in the dust.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:


 * How long will ye lay snares for words?
 * Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
 * Wherefore are we counted as beasts,
 * And reputed dull in your sight?
 * Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger,
 * Shall the earth be forsaken for thee?
 * Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
 * Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,
 * And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
 * The light shall be dark in his tent,
 * And his lamp over him shall be put out.
 * The steps of his strength shall be straitened,
 * And his own counsel shall cast him down.
 * For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
 * And he walketh upon the toils.
 * A gin shall take him by the heel,
 * And a snare shall lay hold on him.
 * A noose is hid for him in the ground,
 * And a trap for him in the way.
 * Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side,
 * And shall entrap him at his feet.
 * His trouble shall be ravenous,
 * And calamity shall be ready for his fall.
 * It shall devour the members of his body,
 * Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
 * That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent;
 * And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
 * There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his;
 * Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
 * His roots shall dry up beneath,
 * And above shall his branch wither.
 * His remembrance shall perish from the earth,
 * And he shall have no name abroad.
 * He shall be driven from light into darkness,
 * And chased out of the world.
 * He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people,
 * Nor any remaining in his dwellings.
 * They that come after shall be astonished at his day,