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- Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
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- How long wilt thou speak these things, seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind?
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- Doth God pervert judgment?
Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
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- If thy children sinned against Him, He delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
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- If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
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- If thou wert pure and upright;
surely now He would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
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- And though thy beginning was small, yet thy end should greatly increase.
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- For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out -
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- For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow -
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- Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
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- Can the rush shoot up without mire?
Can the reed-grass grow without water?
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- Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
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- So are the paths of all that forget God;
and the hope of the godless man shall perish;
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- Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider"s web.
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- He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand;
he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
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- He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
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- His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.
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- If he be destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: "I have not seen thee."
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- Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others spring.
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- Behold, God will not cast away an innocent man, neither will He uphold the evil-doers;
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- Till He fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.
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- They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame;
and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
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