8Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:H6030H1085H7747H5592"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?H575H5704H4448H561H6310H3524H73073Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?H410H5791H4941H7706H5791H66644If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.H1121H2398H7971H3027H65885If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,H7836H410H7836H2603H77066if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.H2134H3477H5782H5116H6664H79997And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.H7225H4705H319H3966H76858"For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.H7592H7223H7223H1755H3559H2714H19For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.H8543H3045H3117H776H673810Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?H3384H559H3318H4405H382011"Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?H1573H1342H1207H7685H260H7685H1097H432512While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.H3H6998H3001H6440H268213Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.H734H7911H410H2611H8615H614His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider's web.H3689H6990H4009H5908H100415He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.H8172H1004H5975H2388H696516He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.H7373H6440H8121H3127H3318H159317His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones.H8328H5440H1530H2372H1004H6818If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.'H1104H4725H3584H720019Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring.H4885H1870H6083H312H677920"Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.H410H3988H8535H2388H3027H748921He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.H4390H6310H7814H8193H864322Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."H8130H3847H1322H168H7563H369
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