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| [1]Then aunswered Bildad the Suhite, & said |
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| [2]Howe long wilt thou talke of such thinges? howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie wind |
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| [3]Doth God paruert the thing that is lawfull? or doth the almightie destroy the thing that is right |
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| [4]For seyng that thy sonnes sinned against him, did not he send them into the place of their iniquitie |
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| [5]If thou wouldest nowe resorte vnto God be times, and make thy prayer to the almightie |
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| [6]If thou wouldest liue a pure and godly life: shoulde he not awake vp vnto thee immediatly, and make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous |
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| [7]In so much that wherin so euer thou haddest litle afore, thou shouldest haue nowe great aboundaunce |
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| [8]Enquire I pray thee of the former age, and search diligently among their fathers |
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| [9](For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe. |
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| [10]Shall not they shew thee, and tel thee, yea and gladly confesse the same, and vtter the wordes of their heart |
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| [11]May a rushe be greene without moystnesse? or may the grasse growe without water |
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| [12]No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe |
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| [13]So are the pathes of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall come to naught |
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| [14]His confidence shalbe destroyed, and his trust shalbe a spiders webbe |
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| [15]He shal leane vpon his house, but it shal not stande: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure |
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| [16]It is a greene [tree] before the sunne, & shooteth foorth the braunches ouer his garden |
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| [17]The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountayne, and are folden about the house of stones |
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| [18]If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee |
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| [19]Behold it will reioyce by this meanes, if it may growe in another mould |
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| [20]Beholde, God will not cast away a vertuous man, neither wil he helpe the vngodly |
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| [21]Thy mouth shall he fill with laughing, and thy lippes with gladnesse |
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| [22]They also that hate thee shalbe clothed with shame, & the dwelling of the vngodly shall come to naught |
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