| Chapter 8 |
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 łGod 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 łGod, 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 łGod; 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, łGod 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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