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| [1]Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said, |
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| [2]How long wilt thou speak these things, how long shall the breath of thy mouth be abundant in words? |
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| [3]Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice? |
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| [4]If thy sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression. |
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| [5]But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty. |
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| [6]If thou art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication, and will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness. |
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| [7]Though then thy beginning should be small, yet thy end should be unspeakably great. |
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| [8]For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers: |
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| [9](for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:) |
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| [10]shall not these teach thee, and report to thee, and bring out words from their heart? |
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| [11]Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture? |
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| [12]When it is yet on the root, and though it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture? |
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| [13]Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish. |
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| [14]For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web. |
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| [15]If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain. |
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| [16]For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap. |
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| [17]He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints. |
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| [18]If God should destroy him, his place shall deny him. Hast thou not seen such things, |
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| [19]that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow. |
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| [20]For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly. |
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| [21]But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving. |
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| [22]But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish. |
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