New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)
Job
Job, 18
1 And Bilʹdad the Shuʹhite proceeded to answer and say:
2 “How long will YOU people be at putting an end to words? YOU should understand, that afterward we may speak.
3 Why should we be reckoned as beasts [And] be regarded as unclean in YOUR eyes?
4 He is tearing his soul to pieces in his anger. For your sake will the earth be abandoned, Or a rock move away from its place?
5 The light also of wicked ones will be extinguished And the spark of his fire will not shine.
6 A light itself will certainly grow dark in his tent, And in it his own lamp will be extinguished.
7 His steps of vigor*1 will become cramped. Even his counsel will cast him off.
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8 For he will indeed be let go into a net by his feet, And onto a network he will walk.
9 A trap will seize [him] by the heel; A snare keeps hold upon him.
10 A cord for him is hidden on the earth, And a catching device for him on [his] pathway.
11 Round about, sudden terrors certainly make him start up in fright, And indeed chase him at his feet.
12 His vigor becomes famished, And disaster stands ready to make him limp.
13 It will eat the pieces of his skin;*1 The firstborn of death*2 will eat his limbs.
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14 His confidence will be torn away from his own tent And it will march him to the king of terrors.
15 There will reside in his tent something that is not his; Sulphur will be strewed upon his own abiding place.
16 Underneath will his very roots dry up, And, up above, his bough will wither.
17 The very mentioning of him will certainly perish from the earth, And he will have no name out in the street.
18 They will push him out of the light into the darkness, And from the productive land*1 they will chase him away.
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19 He will have no posterity and no progeny among his people, And there will be no survivor in his place of alien residence.
20 At his day the people in the West will indeed stare in amazement, And a shudder will certainly seize even the people in the East.
21 Only these are the tabernacles of a wrongdoer, And this is the place of one that has not known God.”*1
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