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Then 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 unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
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In so much, 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 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 evil doer:
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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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