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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said

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How long wilt thou speak these things, seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind

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Doth G-d pervert judgment? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice

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If thy children sinned against Him, He delivered them into the hand of their transgression

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If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto G-d, and make thy supplication to the Almighty

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If thou wert pure and upright; surely now He would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous

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And though thy beginning was small, yet thy end should greatly increase

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For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out-

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For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow-

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Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart

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Can the rush shoot up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water

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Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb

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So are the paths of all that forget G-d; and the hope of the godless man shall perish

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Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web

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He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure

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He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden

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His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones

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If he be destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: 'I have not seen thee.

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Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others spring

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Behold, G-d will not cast away an innocent man, neither will He uphold the evil-doers

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Till He fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting

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They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more