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Job.
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Chapter 8.
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
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“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be 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, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
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If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
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If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
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Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
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“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
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(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
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“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
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While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
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So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
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whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
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He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
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He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
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His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
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If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
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Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
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“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
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He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
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Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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