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1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
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1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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2 Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth?
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2 "How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.
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3 Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
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3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
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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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4 When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
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5 If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
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5 But if you will look to God and plead with the Almighty,
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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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6 if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your rightful place.
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7 And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
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7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
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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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8 "Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned,
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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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9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
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10 Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?
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10 Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
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11 `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?
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11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
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12 While it [is] in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.
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12 While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
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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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13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
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14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
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14 What he trusts in is fragile; what he relies on is a spider's web.
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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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15 He leans on his web, but it gives way; he clings to it, but it does not hold.
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16 Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
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16 He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;
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17 By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.
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17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.
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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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18 But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, 'I never saw you.'
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19 Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'
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19 Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow.
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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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20 "Surely God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
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21 While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,
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21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
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22 Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!
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22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more."
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