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a great wind?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Does God pervert justice?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Or does the Almighty<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15103a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> pervert the right?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>If your children sinned against him,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he delivered them into the power of their transgression.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>If you will seek God</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and make supplication to the Almighty,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15105b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>if you are pure and upright,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">surely then he will rouse himself for you</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and restore to you your rightful place.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Though your beginning was small,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">your latter days will be very great.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>“For inquire now of bygone generations,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and consider what their ancestors have found;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for our days on earth are but a shadow.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Will they not teach you and tell you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and utter words out of their understanding?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Can reeds flourish where there is no water?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>While yet in flower and not cut down,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they wither before any other plant.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Such are the paths of all who forget God;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the hope of the godless shall perish.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Their confidence is gossamer,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">a spider’s house their trust.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>If one leans against its house, it will not stand;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>The wicked thrive<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15116c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> before the sun,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their shoots spread over the garden.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Their roots twine around the stoneheap;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they live among the rocks.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15117d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>If they are destroyed from their place,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">then it will deny them, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>See, these are their happy ways,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15119e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and out of the earth still others will spring.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>“See, God will not reject a blameless person,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">nor take the hand of evildoers.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and your lips with shouts of joy.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 8:3">Job 8:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 8:5">Job 8:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 8:16">Job 8:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>He thrives</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 8:17">Job 8:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 8:19">Job 8:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> 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