The Book of Job
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verso 1
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
verso 2
“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
verso 3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
verso 4
If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
verso 5
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
verso 6
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
verso 7
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
verso 8
“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
verso 9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
verso 10
Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
verso 11
“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
verso 12
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
verso 13
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
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whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
verso 15
He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
verso 16
He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
verso 17
His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
verso 18
If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
verso 19
Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
verso 20
“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
verso 21
He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
verso 22
Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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