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And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If your sons have sinned before Him, "" And He sends them away, "" By the hand of their transgression,<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If you seek for God early, "" And make supplication to the Mighty,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If you [are] pure and upright, "" Surely now He wakes for you, "" And has completed "" The habitation of your righteousness.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And your beginning has been small, "" And your latter end is very great.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For inquire, please, of a former generation, "" And prepare for a search of their fathers,<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, "" For our days [are] a shadow on earth.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Do they not show you—speak to you, "" And from their heart bring forth words?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, "" Even before any herb it withers.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, "" And the hope of the profane perishes,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Whose confidence is loathsome, "" And the house of a spider his trust.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He leans on his house—and it does not stand, "" He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He [is] green before the sun, "" And over his garden his branch goes out.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>His roots are wrapped by a heap, "" He looks for a house of stones.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If [one] destroys him from his place, "" Then it has feigned concerning him, "" I have not seen you!<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Behold, this [is] the joy of His way, "" And from the dust others spring up.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Behold, God does not reject the perfect, "" Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>While He fills your mouth with laughter, "" And your lips with shouting,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Those hating you put on shame, "" And the tent of the wicked is not!”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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