Job 8
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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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How long will you speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of your mouth
be [like] a mighty wind?
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Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
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If your children have sinned against him, And he has delivered them into the hand
of their transgression;
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If you would seek diligently to God, And make your supplication to the Almighty;
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If you were pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for you, And make the habitation
of your righteousness prosperous.
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And though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.
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For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, And apply yourself to that which their
fathers have searched out:
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(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a
shadow);
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Shall not they teach you, and tell you, And utter words out of their heart?
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Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?
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Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withers before any [other]
herb.
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So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
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Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider`s web.
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He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby,
but it shall not endure.
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He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
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His roots are wrapped about the [stone] -heap, He beholds the place of stones.
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If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen
you.
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Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.
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Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
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He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, And your lips with shouting.
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They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be
no more.