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8:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
8:2  How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
8:3  Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
8:4  If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their transgression;
8:5  If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
8:6  If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
8:7  Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
8:8  For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the findings of their fathers:
8:9  (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
8:10  Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
8:11  Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? can the reeds grow without water?
8:12  While it is yet green, and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.
8:13  So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
8:14  Whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
8:15  He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
8:16  He grows green in the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.
8:17  His roots are wrapped about the stone heap, and looks for a place in the stones.
8:18  If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, I have not seen you.
8:19  Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
8:20  Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he help the evil doers:
8:21  Till he fills your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.
8:22  They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing.