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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 sinned against him, he 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 restore to you your rightful place.
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| 8:7 |
Though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
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| 8:8 |
"For inquire now of bygone generations, and consider what their ancestors have found;
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| 8:9 |
for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing, for our days on earth are but 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 shall perish.
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| 8:14 |
Their confidence is gossamer, a spider's house their trust.
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| 8:15 |
If one leans against its house, it will not stand; if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.
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| 8:16 |
The wicked thrive before the sun, and their shoots spread over the garden.
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| 8:17 |
Their roots twine around the stoneheap; they live among the rocks.
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| 8:18 |
If they are destroyed from their place, then it will deny them, saying, 'I have never seen you.'
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| 8:19 |
See, these are their happy ways, and out of the earth still others will spring.
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| 8:20 |
"See, God will not reject a blameless person, nor take the hand of evildoers.
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| 8:21 |
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouts of joy.
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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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