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The American Standard Version of 1901

Job 8

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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, 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 mighty wind?

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Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?

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1 If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression; 1) Or If thy children sinned...he delivered etc

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If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

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If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

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And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

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For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:

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(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

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

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Can the 1 rush grow up without mire? Can the 2 flag grow without water? 1) Or papyrus 2) Or reed-grass

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Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

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So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:

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Whose confidence shall 1 break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's 2 web. 1) Or be cut off 2) Heb house

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He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

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He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.

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His roots are wrapped 1 about the stone -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones. 1) Or beside the spring

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If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying , I have not seen thee.

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Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the 1 earth shall others spring. 1) Or dust

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Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

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1 He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting. 1) Or Till he fill

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They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.



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