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8:1  Bildad the Shuhite replies to Job:
8:2  “How long will you go on like this, Job, blowing words around like wind?
8:3  Does God twist justice?
8:4  If your children sinned against him, and he punished them,
8:5  and you begged Almighty God for them—
8:6  if you were pure and good, he would hear your prayer and answer you and bless you with a happy home.
8:7  And though you started with little, you would end with much.
8:8  “Read the history books and see—
8:9  for we were born but yesterday and know so little; our days here on earth are as transient as shadows.
8:10  But the wisdom of the past will teach you. The experience of others will speak to you, reminding you that
8:11  those who forget God have no hope. They are like rushes without any mire to grow in; or grass without water to keep it alive. Suddenly it begins to wither, even before it is cut.
8:12  those who forget God have no hope. They are like rushes without any mire to grow in; or grass without water to keep it alive. Suddenly it begins to wither, even before it is cut.
8:13  those who forget God have no hope. They are like rushes without any mire to grow in; or grass without water to keep it alive. Suddenly it begins to wither, even before it is cut.
8:14  A man without God is trusting in a spider’s web. Everything he counts on will collapse.
8:15  If he counts on his home for security, it won’t last.
8:16  At dawn he seems so strong and virile, like a green plant; his branches spread across the garden.
8:17  His roots are in the stream, down among the stones.
8:18  But when he disappears, he isn’t even missed!
8:19  That is all he can look forward to! And others spring up from the earth to replace him!
8:20  “But look! God will not cast away a good man, nor prosper evildoers.
8:21  He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
8:22  Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame, and the wicked destroyed.”