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2.0 KiB
Markdown
68 lines
2.0 KiB
Markdown
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## Bildad Claims God Rewards the Good
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###### 1
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
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###### 2
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"How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
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###### 3
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Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?
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###### 4
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If your sons sinned against Him, Then He sent them into the power of their transgression.
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###### 5
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If you would seek God earnestly And plead for the grace of the Almighty,
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###### 6
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If you are pure and upright, Indeed now He would rouse Himself for you And make your righteous abode at peace.
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###### 7
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Though your beginning was insignificant, Yet your end will increase greatly.
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###### 8
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"Please ask of past generations, And establish the things searched out by their fathers.
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###### 9
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For we are _only_ of yesterday and know nothing, Because our days on earth are _but_ a shadow.
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###### 10
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Will they not instruct you _and_ tell you, And bring forth words from their hearts?
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###### 11
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"Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the rushes grow without water?
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###### 12
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While it is still green _and_ not cut down, Yet it dries up before any _other_ plant.
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###### 13
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So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the godless will perish,
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###### 14
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Whose confidence is fragile, And whose trust a spider's web.
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###### 15
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He relies on his house, but it does not stand; He holds fast to it, but it is not established.
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###### 16
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He thrives before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
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###### 17
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His roots wrap around a rock pile; He looks upon a house of stones.
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###### 18
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If He swallows him up from his place, Then it will deny him, _saying_, 'I never saw you.'
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###### 19
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Behold, this is the joy of His way; And out of the dust others will spring.
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###### 20
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Behold, God will not reject a blameless _man_, Nor will He strengthen the hand of the evildoers.
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###### 21
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He will yet fill your mouth with laughter And your lips with shouting.
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###### 22
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Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, And the tent of the wicked will be no longer."
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