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| 8:1 |
And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
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| 8:2 |
Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth?
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| 8:3 |
Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
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| 8:4 |
If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
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| 8:5 |
If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
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| 8:6 |
If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
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| 8:7 |
And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
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| 8:8 |
For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,
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| 8:9 |
(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)
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| 8:10 |
Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?
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| 8:11 |
`Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?
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| 8:12 |
While it [is] in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.
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| 8:13 |
So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
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| 8:14 |
Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
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| 8:15 |
He leaneth on his house -- and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it -- and it abideth not.
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| 8:16 |
Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
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| 8:17 |
By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.
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| 8:18 |
If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!
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| 8:19 |
Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'
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| 8:20 |
Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.
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| 8:21 |
While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,
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| 8:22 |
Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!
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