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8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
8:2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? 8:3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? 8:4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. 8:5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. 8:6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. 8:7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase. 8:8 "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers. 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.) 8:10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart? 8:11 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? 8:12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. 8:13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish, 8:14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web. 8:15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure. 8:16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden. 8:17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. 8:18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.' 8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring. 8:20 "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers. 8:21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. 8:22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more." |
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