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8:1  And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
8:2  How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
8:3  Doth �God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
8:4  If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
8:5  If thou seek earnestly unto �God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
8:6  If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
8:7  And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
8:8  For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
8:9  For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
8:10  Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
8:11  Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
8:12  Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withereth before any other grass.
8:13  So are the paths of all that forget �God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
8:14  Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
8:15  He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
8:16  He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
8:17  His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
8:18  If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
8:19  Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
8:20  Behold, �God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
8:21  Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
8:22  They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.