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American King James Version

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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

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How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

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Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?

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If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

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If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty;

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If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

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Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.

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For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:

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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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Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

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Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

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Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb.

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So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

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Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

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He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

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He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

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His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.

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If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.

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Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

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Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

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Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.

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They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.

Job 8of 42

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About Job 8

Bildad insists God doesn't pervert justice; suggests Job's children died for their sins. Urges Job to seek God earnestly—if pure, God will restore him. Uses plant imagery to show the wicked perish while the righteous flourish.

Historical context

Author
Unknown (ancient sage)
Written
Unknown date; composition often placed between 1500 and 500 BC
Location
Land of Uz
Setting
Land of Uz, pastoral patriarchal setting

Extended poetic disputation on righteousness and suffering.

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