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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then in response, Bildad from Shuah said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"How long will you keep talking like this? How long will you keep talking like a wind storm? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what's right? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"If your children sin against him, he'll make them a prisoner of their sins. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If you seek God, if you ask the Almighty for mercy, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6if you are clean and upright, surely then, he'll act on your behalf and restore your rightful place. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Your beginning may be small, but later years will be very great. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Inquire of the previous generation, won't you please? Consider what their forefathers searched out. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Because we are of yesterday and we know nothing, for our time on earth is only a shadow. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Won't they instruct you, and tell you, and bring out words from the heart? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Can papyrus grow where there's no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12While they are still green and not yet ready to be harvested, they wither before any plant. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Such are the paths of everyone who forgets God— the hope of the godless will be destroyed: |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14his confidence is shattered; his trust is in a spider's web. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He leans against his house, but it won't stand; he grabs hold of it firmly, but it doesn't last. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He is a fresh sapling planted in the sunlight, spreading out its branches over its garden. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Its roots weave around a pile of stones, seeking to entrench itself among the rocks. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18If he is uprooted from his place, then it will deny him: 'I never saw you.' |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Indeed, this is the benefit of God's way: from the soil other plants will sprout. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Surely God won't reject those who are blameless or hold hands with those who practice evil. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He will soon fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips will shout with joy. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will no longer exist. |
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