Job:8

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* Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said : * How long will you speak these things , and the words of your mouth be like a strong wind ? * Does the Mighty God pervert justice ? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness ? * If your sons have sinned against Him , He has cast them away for their transgression . * If you would earnestly seek the Mighty God and make your supplication to the Almighty , * if you were pure and upright , surely now He would awake for you , and would have restored your righteous abode . * Though your beginning was small , yet your latter end would increase abundantly . * For inquire now of the former generation , and prepare to search the fathers ; * for we are but of yesterday , and know nothing , because our days on earth are a shadow . * Shall they not teach you and tell you , and utter words from their heart ? * Can the rush grow up without a marsh ? Can the reeds grow without water ? * While it is yet green and not cut down , it dries up before any other plant . * So are the paths of all who forget the Mighty God ; and the hope of the ungodly shall perish , * whose confidence shall be cut off , and whose trust as a spider ’s house . * He leans on his house , but it does not stand . He holds it fast , but it does not endure . * He is moist before the sun , and his shoots spread out in his garden . * His roots are wrapped around a heap ; he sees a house of stones . * If he is swallowed up from his place , then it will deny him , saying , I have not seen you . * Behold , this is the joy of His way , and out of the earth others shall grow . * Behold , the Mighty God will not cast away the perfect , nor will His hand support evildoers . * He will yet fill your mouth with laughter , and your lips with rejoicing . * Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame , and the tent of the wicked will come to nothing .

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