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Chapter 8
1 The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
2 How long will you speak these things, and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
3 does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
4 Although your children have sinned against him, and he has left them in the hand of their iniquity:
5 Yet if you will arise early to God, and will beseech the Almighty:
6 If you will walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto you, and will make the dwelling of your justice peaceable:
7 Insomuch, that if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:)
10 And they shall teach you: they shall speak to you, and utter words out of their hearts.
11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?
12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withers before all herbs.
13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
16 He seems to have moisture before the sun comes, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth.
17 His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.
18 If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know you not.
19 For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:
21 Until your mouth be filled with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.
22 They that hate you, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.