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8:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said:
8:2  “How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
8:3  Doth God pervert judgment? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
8:4  If thy children have sinned against Him and He have cast them away for their transgression,
8:5  if thou wouldest seek unto God speedily and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
8:6  if thou wert pure and upright, surely now He would awake for thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
8:7  Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8:8  “For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself for the searching of their fathers;
8:9  for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because 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  Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed grow without water?
8:12  Whilst it is yet in his greenness and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
8:13  So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish,
8:14  whose hope shall be cut off and whose trust shall be 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  He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
8:17  His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
8:18  If he destroy him 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 shall others grow.
8:20  “Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will He help the evildoers,
8:21  till He fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with rejoicing.
8:22  They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.”