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8:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
8:2  “How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
8:3  Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
8:4  If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
8:5  If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,
8:6  if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.
8:7  And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
8:8  “For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.
8:9  For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
8:10  Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?
8:11  “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
8:12  While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
8:13  Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.
8:14  His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider’s web.
8:15  He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
8:16  He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.
8:17  His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones.
8:18  If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
8:19  Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring.
8:20  “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
8:21  He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.
8:22  Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”