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8:1  Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,
8:2  How long wilt thou speak such things and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
8:3  Shall God pervert that which is right or shall the Almighty pervert justice?
8:4  Because thy sons sinned against him, he cast them away in the place of their rebellion;
8:5  if thou would seek God early and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
8:6  if thou wert pure and upright, surely now he would awake upon thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
8:7  In such a way that thy beginning would have been small, in comparison to the great increase of thy latter.
8:8  Ask, I pray thee, of the former age, and be willing to enquire of thy fathers regarding them;
8:9  for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.
8:10  Shall they not teach thee and tell thee and utter these words out of their heart?
8:11  Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the meadow grow without water?
8:12  Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.
8:13  So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish.
8:14  For his hope shall be cut off, and his trust is 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  Like a tree, he is green before the sun, and his branches go forth over his garden;
8:17  his roots weave themselves around a spring and secure themselves even in a stony place.
8:18  If he is uprooted from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
8:19  Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth from where he was transplanted, others shall grow.
8:20  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man; neither will he help the evil doers.
8:21  He will yet fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouts of joy.
8:22  Those that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.