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8:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite,
8:2  How long will you say these things [Job]? And how long shall the words of your mouth be as a mighty wind?
8:3  Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
8:4  If your children have sinned against Him, then He has delivered them into the power of their transgression.
8:5  If you will seek God diligently and make your supplication to the Almighty,
8:6  Then, if you are pure and upright, surely He will bestir Himself for you and make your righteous dwelling prosperous again.
8:7  And though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8:8  For inquire, I pray you, of the former age and apply yourself to that which their fathers have searched out,
8:9  For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.
8:10  Shall not [the forefathers] teach you and tell you and utter words out of their hearts (the deepest part of their nature)?
8:11  Can the rush or papyrus grow up without marsh? Can the flag or reed grass grow without water?
8:12  While it is yet green, in flower, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb [when without water].
8:13  So are the ways of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless shall perish.
8:14  For his confidence breaks, and [the object of] his trust is a spider’s web.
8:15  He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not last.
8:16  He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
8:17  [Godless] his roots are wrapped about the [stone] heap, and see their way [promisingly] among the rocks.
8:18  But if [God] snatches him from his property, [then having passed into the hands of others] it [his property] will forget and deny him, [saying,] I have never seen you [before, as if ashamed of him—like his former friends].
8:19  See, this is the joy of going the way [of the ungodly]! And from the dust others will spring up [to take his place].
8:20  Behold, as surely as God will never uphold wrongdoers, He will never cast away a blameless man.
8:21  He will yet fill your mouth with laughter [Job] and your lips with joyful shouting.
8:22  Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tents of the wicked shall be no more.