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Bildad defends God

Bildad from Shuah responded:

How long will you mouth such things
    such that your utterances become a strong wind?
Does God pervert justice,
    or does the Almighty distort what is right?
If your children sinned against him,
    then he delivered them into the power of their rebellion.
If you will search eagerly for God,
    plead with the Almighty.
If you are pure and do the right thing,
    then surely he will become active on your behalf
    and reward your innocent dwelling.
Although your former state was ordinary,
    your future will be extraordinary.

Tradition

Ask a previous generation
        and verify the findings of your ancestors,
    for we are only recently here and don’t know
        because our days on earth are a shadow.
10 Won’t they instruct you and tell you;
    will words not[a] proceed from their hearts?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:10 Heb lacks not.

God’s faithfulness

20 Surely God won’t reject integrity,
    won’t strengthen the hand of the wicked.
21 He will still fill your mouth with joy,
    your lips with a victorious shout.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
    and the tent of the wicked will vanish.

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