2“How long will you hunt for words?
         Show understanding and then we can talk.

3“Why are we regarded as beasts,
         As stupid in your eyes?

4“O you who tear yourself in your anger—
         For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
         Or the rock to be moved from its place?

5“Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out,
         And the flame of his fire gives no light.

6“The light in his tent is darkened,
         And his lamp goes out above him.

7“His vigorous stride is shortened,
         And his own scheme brings him down.

8“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
         And he steps on the webbing.

9“A snare seizes him by the heel,
         And a trap snaps shut on him.

10“A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
         And a trap for him on the path.

11“All around terrors frighten him,
         And harry him at every step.

12“His strength is famished,
         And calamity is ready at his side.

13“His skin is devoured by disease,
         The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

14“He is torn from the security of his tent,
         And they march him before the king of terrors.

15“There dwells in his tent nothing of his;
         Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.

16“His roots are dried below,
         And his branch is cut off above.

17“Memory of him perishes from the earth,
         And he has no name abroad.

18“He is driven from light into darkness,
         And chased from the inhabited world.

19“He has no offspring or posterity among his people,
         Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

20“Those in the west are appalled at his fate,
         And those in the east are seized with horror.

21“Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked,
         And this is the place of him who does not know God.”

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American Standard Version
How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

Douay-Rheims Bible
How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.

Darby Bible Translation
How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.

English Revised Version
How long will ye lay snares for words? consider, and afterwards we will speak.

Webster's Bible Translation
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

World English Bible
"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

Young's Literal Translation
When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.Whether the Fire of Hell is Beneath the Earth?
Objection 1: It would seem that this fire is not beneath the earth. For it is said of the damned (Job 18:18), "And God shall remove him out of the globe [Douay: 'world']." Therefore the fire whereby the damned will be punished is not beneath the earth but outside the globe. Objection 2: Further, nothing violent or accidental can be everlasting. But this fire will be in hell for ever. Therefore it will be there, not by force but naturally. Now fire cannot be under the earth save by violence. Therefore …
Saint Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologica

Whether the Devil is the Head of all the Wicked?
Objection 1: It would seem that the devil is not the head of the wicked. For it belongs to the head to diffuse sense and movement into the members, as a gloss says, on Eph. 1:22, "And made Him head," etc. But the devil has no power of spreading the evil of sin, which proceeds from the will of the sinner. Therefore the devil cannot be called the head of the wicked. Objection 2: Further, by every sin a man is made evil. But not every sin is from the devil; and this is plain as regards the demons, who …
Saint Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologica

The Difference Between the Two Testaments.
1. Five points of difference between the Old and the New Testaments. These belong to the mode of administration rather than the substance. First difference. In the Old Testament the heavenly inheritance is exhibited under temporal blessings; in the New, aids of this description are not employed. 2. Proof of this first difference from the simile of an heir in pupillarity, as in Gal. 4:1. 3. This the reason why the Patriarchs, under the Law, set a higher value on this life and the blessings of it, …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Whether the Fire of Hell is of the Same Species as Ours?
Objection 1: It would seem that this fire is not of the same species as the corporeal fire which we see. For Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xx, 16): "In my opinion no man knows of what kind is the everlasting fire, unless the Spirit of God has revealed it to anyone." But all or nearly all know the nature of this fire of ours. Therefore that fire is not of the same species as this. Objection 2: Further, Gregory commenting on Job 10:26, "A fire that is not kindled shall devour him," says (Moral. xv): …
Saint Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologica

The Desire of the Righteous Granted;
OR, A DISCOURSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS MAN'S DESIRES. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR As the tree is known by its fruit, so is the state of a man's heart known by his desires. The desires of the righteous are the touchstone or standard of Christian sincerity--the evidence of the new birth--the spiritual barometer of faith and grace--and the springs of obedience. Christ and him crucified is the ground of all our hopes--the foundation upon which all our desires after God and holiness are built--and the root …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

A Few Sighs from Hell;
or, The Groans of the Damned Soul: or, An Exposition of those Words in the Sixteenth of Luke, Concerning the Rich Man and the Beggar WHEREIN IS DISCOVERED THE LAMENTABLE STATE OF THE DAMNED; THEIR CRIES, THEIR DESIRES IN THEIR DISTRESSES, WITH THE DETERMINATION OF GOD UPON THEM. A GOOD WARNING WORD TO SINNERS, BOTH OLD AND YOUNG, TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION BETIMES, AND TO SEEK, BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, TO AVOID, LEST THEY COME INTO THE SAME PLACE OF TORMENT. Also, a Brief Discourse touching the …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

Job
The book of Job is one of the great masterpieces of the world's literature, if not indeed the greatest. The author was a man of superb literary genius, and of rich, daring, and original mind. The problem with which he deals is one of inexhaustible interest, and his treatment of it is everywhere characterized by a psychological insight, an intellectual courage, and a fertility and brilliance of resource which are nothing less than astonishing. Opinion has been divided as to how the book should be …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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