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| 8:1 |
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
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| 8:2 |
'How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
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| 8:3 |
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
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| 8:4 |
If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.
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| 8:5 |
If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,
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| 8:6 |
if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and reward you with a rightful habitation.
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| 8:7 |
And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
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| 8:8 |
'For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;
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| 8:9 |
for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
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| 8:10 |
Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding?
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| 8:11 |
'Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
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| 8:12 |
While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
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| 8:13 |
Such are the paths of all who forget God;the hope of the godless man shall perish.
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| 8:14 |
His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web.
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| 8:15 |
He leans against his house, but it does not stand;he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
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| 8:16 |
He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.
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| 8:17 |
His roots twine about the stoneheap;he lives among the rocks.
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| 8:18 |
If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, I have never seen you.'
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| 8:19 |
Behold, this is the joy of his way;and out of the earth others will spring.
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| 8:20 |
'Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
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| 8:21 |
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.
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| 8:22 |
Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.'
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