| Chapter 8 |
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The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said: -
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How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? -
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Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just? -
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Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity: -
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Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: -
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If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable: -
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Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly. -
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For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: -
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(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:) -
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And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts. -
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Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water? -
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When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs. -
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Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish: -
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His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web. -
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He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise: -
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He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth. -
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His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide. -
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If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not. -
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For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth. -
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God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer: -
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Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing. -
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They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand. -
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