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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider’s web. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20“Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.” |
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