Job 8
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1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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2 How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
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3 Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
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4 If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
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5 If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
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6 If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
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7 And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
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8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out
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9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because 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 Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?
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12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb.
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13 So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
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14 Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider’s web.
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15 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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16 He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
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17 His roots are wrapped about the [stone]-heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.
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18 If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
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19 Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.
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20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
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21 He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, 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 shall be no more.