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  • 1. And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
  • 2. How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
  • 3. Doth �God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
  • 4. If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
  • 5. If thou seek earnestly unto �God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
  • 6. If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
  • 7. And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
  • 8. For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
  • 9. For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
  • 10. Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
  • 11. Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
  • 12. Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
  • 13. So are the paths of all that forget �God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
  • 14. Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
  • 15. He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
  • 16. He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
  • 17. His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
  • 18. If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
  • 19. Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
  • 20. Behold, �God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
  • 21. Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
  • 22. They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.