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Job - ch 8 v 1 - 20
- Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
- "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
- Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
- If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
- If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
- If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
- "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
- (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
- Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
- "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
- While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
- So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
- Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
- He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
- He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.
- His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
- If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'
- Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
- "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
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