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8:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
8:2  “How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a strong wind?
8:3  Does God make wrong what is fair? Does the All-powerful make wrong what is right?
8:4  If your children have sinned against Him, He has given them over to the power of their sin.
8:5  If you will look for God and pray to the All-powerful,
8:6  if you are pure and right and good, for sure He will help you. Because you are right and good He will put you back where you should be.
8:7  And even if your beginning was small, your end will be very great.
8:8  “Ask about those who have lived before. Think about what their fathers learned.
8:9  For we are only of yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are as a shadow.
8:10  Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak words of wisdom?
8:11  “Can the tall river grass grow up from dry ground? Can the grass that grows in wet places grow without water?
8:12  While it is still green and not cut, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
8:13  So are the ways of all who forget God. The hope of the man without God is destroyed.
8:14  What he trusts in is easy to break, like the home of a spider.
8:15  The spider trusts in his house, but it falls apart. He holds on to it, but it does not hold.
8:16  He is full of strength in the sunshine, and his branches spread out over his garden.
8:17  His roots grow around rocks and they work their way among the stones.
8:18  If he is taken from his place, then it will turn away from him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
8:19  See, this is the joy of His way. And out of the dust others will come.
8:20  See, God will not turn away from a man who is honest and faithful. And He will not help those who do wrong.
8:21  He will yet make you laugh and call out with joy.
8:22  Those who hate you will be dressed with shame. And the tent of the sinful will be no more.”