Job 8 / 42
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(Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent)
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
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"How long will you say these things,
and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
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Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
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If your children have sinned against him,
he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
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If you will seek God
and plead with the Almighty for mercy,
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if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore your rightful habitation.
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And though your beginning was small,
your latter days will be very great.
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"For inquire, please, of bygone ages,
and consider what the fathers have searched out.
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For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are a shadow.
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Will they not teach you and tell you
and utter words out of their understanding?
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"Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
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While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither before any other plant.
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Such are the paths of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless shall perish.
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His confidence is severed,
and his trust is a spider's web.
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He leans against his house, but it does not stand;
he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
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He is a lush plant before the sun,
and his shoots spread over his garden.
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His roots entwine the stone heap;
he looks upon a house of stones.
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If he is destroyed from his place,
then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.'
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Behold, this is the joy of his way,
and out of the soil others will spring.
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"Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,
nor take the hand of evildoers.
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He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
and your lips with shouting.
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Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the tent of the wicked will be no more."