Job 8:6-16

6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
7 In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow
10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?
12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked u with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, an the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall no stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
16 He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.
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