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| 1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: |
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| 2 Till when dost thou speak these things And a strong wind sayings of thy mouth |
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| 3 Doth God pervert judgment And doth the Mighty One pervert justice |
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| 4 If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression, |
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| 5 If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication, |
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| 6 If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness. |
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| 7 And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great. |
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| 8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers, |
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| 9 (For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.) |
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| 10 Do they not shew thee speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words |
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| 11 'Doth a rush wise without mire A reed increase without water |
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| 12 While it [is] in its budding uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth. |
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| 13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish, |
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| 14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust. |
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| 15 He leaneth on his house and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it and it abideth not. |
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| 16 Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out. |
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| 17 By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for. |
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| 18 If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee! |
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| 19 Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.' |
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| 20 Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers. |
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| 21 While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting, |
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| 22 Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not! |
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