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1 | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,  | 
2 | How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?  | 
3 | 1Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
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4 | If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;  | 
5 | If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;  | 
6 | If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.  |  
7 | Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.  | 
 
8 | For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:  | 
 
9 | (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)  | 
10 | Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?  | 
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Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?  |  
12 | Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.  | 
13 | So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:  | 
 
14 | Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.  | 
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He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.  | 
16 | He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.  | 
17 | His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.  | 
18 | If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.  | 
19 | Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.  | 
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Behold, God 1will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil 
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21 | Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.  | 
22 | They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.  | 
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