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Job 8:1
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Then Bildad the Shuchite answered,
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Job 8:2
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"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
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Job 8:3
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Does God pervert justice? Or does Shaddai pervert righteousness?
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Job 8:4
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If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;
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Job 8:5
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If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to Shaddai.
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Job 8:6
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If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
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Job 8:7
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Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.
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Job 8:8
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"Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers.
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Job 8:9
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(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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Job 8:10
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Shall they not teach you, tell you, And utter words out of their heart?
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Job 8:11
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"Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
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Job 8:12
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While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.
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Job 8:13
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So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
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Job 8:14
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Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
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Job 8:15
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He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
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Job 8:16
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He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.
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Job 8:17
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His roots are wrapped around the rock pile, He sees the place of stones.
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Job 8:18
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If he is destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'
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Job 8:19
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Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.
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Job 8:20
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"Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
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Job 8:21
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He will still fill your mouth with laughter, Your lips with shouting.
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Job 8:22
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Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
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