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\v 1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
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\q
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\v 2 "How long will you say these things?
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\q How long will the words of your mouth be
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a mighty wind?
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\v 3 Does God pervert justice?
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\q Does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
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\v 4 Your children have sinned against him;
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\q we know this, for he gave them into the hand of their sins.
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\q
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\v 5 But suppose you diligently sought God
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\q and presented your request to the Almighty.
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2017-02-27 20:38:15 +00:00
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\v 6 If you are pure and upright,
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\q then he would surely stir himself on your behalf
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\q and restore you to your rightful place.
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\v 7 Even though your beginning was small,
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\q still your final condition would be much greater.
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2016-07-26 19:33:14 +00:00
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\v 8 Please ask the former generations,
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\q and give your attention to what our ancestors learned.
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\v 9 (We were only born yesterday and know nothing
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\q because our days on earth are a shadow).
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\v 10 Will they not teach you and tell you?
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\q Will they not speak words from their hearts?
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\v 11 Can papyrus grow without a marsh?
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\q Can reeds grow without water?
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\v 12 While they are still green and not cut down,
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\q they wither before any other plant.
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\v 13 So also are the paths of all who forget God;
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\q the hope of the godless will perish.
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\v 14 His confidence will break apart,
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\q and his trust is as weak as a spider's web.
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\v 15 He leans on his house, but it will not support him;
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\q he takes hold of it, but it does not stand.
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\v 16 Under the sun he is green,
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\q and his shoots go out over his entire garden.
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\v 17 His roots are wrapped about the heaps of stone;
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\q they look for good places among the rocks.
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\v 18 But if this person is destroyed out of his place,
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\q then that place will deny him and say, 'I never saw you.'
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\v 19 See, this is the "joy" of such a person's behavior;
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\q other plants will sprout out of the same soil in his place.
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\v 20 See, God will not cast away an innocent man;
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\q neither will he take the hand of evildoers.
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\v 21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
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\q your lips with shouting.
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\v 22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame;
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\q the tent of the wicked will be no more."
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