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        • 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
            • 2. "How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.
                • 3. Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
                    • 4. When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
                        • 5. But if you will look to God and plead with the Almighty,
                            • 6. if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your rightful place.
                                • 7. Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
                                    • 8. "Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned,
                                        • 9. for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
                                            • 10. Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
                                                • 11. Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
                                                    • 12. While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
                                                        • 13. Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
                                                            • 14. What he trusts in is fragile; what he relies on is a spider's web.
                                                                • 15. He leans on his web, but it gives way; he clings to it, but it does not hold.
                                                                    • 16. He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;
                                                                        • 17. it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.
                                                                            • 18. But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, 'I never saw you.'
                                                                                • 19. Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow.
                                                                                    • 20. "Surely God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
                                                                                        • 21. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
                                                                                            • 22. Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more."
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