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Bildad from Shuhah chimed in: |
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"How monotonous these word games are getting! Get serious! We need to get down to business. |
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Why do you treat your friends like slow-witted animals? You look down on us as if we don't know anything. |
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Why are you working yourself up like this? Do you want the world redesigned to suit you? Should reality be suspended to accommodate you? |
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"Here's the rule: The light of the wicked is put out. Their flame dies down and is extinguished. |
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Their house goes dark-- every lamp in the place goes out. |
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Their strong strides weaken, falter; they stumble into their own traps. |
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They get all tangled up in their own red tape, |
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Their feet are grabbed and caught, their necks in a noose. |
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They trip on ropes they've hidden, and fall into pits they've dug themselves. |
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Terrors come at them from all sides. They run helter-skelter. |
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The hungry grave is ready to gobble them up for supper, |
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To lay them out for a gourmet meal, a treat for ravenous Death. |
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They are snatched from their home sweet home and marched straight to the death house. |
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Their lives go up in smoke; acid rain soaks their ruins. |
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Their roots rot and their branches wither. |
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They'll never again be remembered-- nameless in unmarked graves. |
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They are plunged from light into darkness, banished from the world. |
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And they leave empty-handed--not one single child-- nothing to show for their life on this earth. |
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Westerners are aghast at their fate, easterners are horrified: |
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'Oh no! So this is what happens to perverse people. This is how the God-ignorant end up!'" |
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