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- And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
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- Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind — sayings of thy mouth?
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- Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
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- If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
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- If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
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- If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
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- And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
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- For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,
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- (For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)
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- Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?
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- `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?
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- While it [is] in its budding — uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.
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- So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
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- Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
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- He leaneth on his house — and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it — and it abideth not.
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- Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
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- By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.
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- If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!
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- Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'
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- Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.
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- While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,
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- Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!
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