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1 Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
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"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
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Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
4 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
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If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression.
5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
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If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,
6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
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if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore to you your rightful place.
7 In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
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Though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
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"For inquire now of bygone generations, and consider what their ancestors have found;
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow
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for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing, for our days on earth are but a shadow.
10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
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Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?
11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?
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"Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked u with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
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While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, an the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
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Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.
14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
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Their confidence is gossamer, a spider's house their trust.
15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall no stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
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If one leans against its house, it will not stand; if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.
16 He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.
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The wicked thrive before the sun, and their shoots spread over the garden.
17 His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.
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Their roots twine around the stoneheap; they live among the rocks.
18 If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
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If they are destroyed from their place, then it will deny them, saying, "I have never seen you.'
19 For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
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See, these are their happy ways, and out of the earth still others will spring.
20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:
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"See, God will not reject a blameless person, nor take the hand of evildoers.
21 Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.
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He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouts of joy.
22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
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Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
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