The Book of Job 18

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² How long will it be ere ye make an end of words mark and afterwards we will speak ⚑

³ Wherefore are we counted as beasts and reputed vile in your sight ⚑

⁴ He teareth himself in his anger shall the earth be forsaken for thee and shall the rock be removed out of his place ⚑

⁵ Yea the light of the wicked shall be put out and the spark of his fire shall not shine ⚑

⁶ The light shall be dark in his tabernacle and his candle shall be put out with him ⚑

⁷ The steps of his strength shall be straitened and his own counsel shall cast him down ⚑

⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet and he walketh upon a snare ⚑

⁹ The gin shall take him by the heel and the robber shall prevail against him ⚑

¹⁰ The snare is laid for him in the ground and a trap for him in the way ⚑

¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side and shall drive him to his feet ⚑

¹³ It shall devour the strength of his skin even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength ⚑

¹⁴ His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle and it shall bring him to the king of terrors ⚑

¹⁵ It shall dwell in his tabernacle because it is none of his brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation ⚑

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath and above shall his branch be cut off ⚑

¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth and he shall have no name in the street ⚑

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world ⚑

¹⁹ He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people nor any remaining in his dwellings ⚑

²⁰ They that come after him shall be astonied at his day as they that went before were affrighted ⚑

²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked and this is the place of him that knoweth not God ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

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