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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_08_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_08_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c98ce0 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_08_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Job. +Chapter 8. +Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said, +How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? +Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging? +If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand. +If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; +If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again. +And though your start was small, your end will be very great. +Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers: +(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:) +Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you? +Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water? +When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant. +So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing: +Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread. +He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing. +He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden. +His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them. +If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you. +Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place. +Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand. +The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips. +Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again. |