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| 1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, |
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| 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind? |
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| 3 Doth *God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice? |
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| 4 If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression. |
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| 5 If thou seek earnestly unto *God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty, |
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| 6 If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous; |
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| 7 And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great. |
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| 8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers; |
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| 9 For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow. |
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| 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? |
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| 11 Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water? |
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| 12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withereth before any other grass. |
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| 13 So are the paths of all that forget *God; and the profane man's hope shall perish, |
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| 14 Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web. |
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| 15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure. |
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| 16 He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden; |
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| 17 His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones. |
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| 18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee! |
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| 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow. |
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| 20 Behold, *God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand. |
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| 21 Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting, |
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| 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more. |
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