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