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Rh :So that I am a burden to myself?
 * And why dost thou not pardon my transgression,
 * And take away mine iniquity?
 * For now shall I sleep in the dust;
 * And thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
 * How long wilt thou speak these things?
 * And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
 * Doth God pervert judgment?
 * Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
 * If thy children have sinned against him,
 * And he have cast them away for their transgression;
 * If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes,
 * And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
 * If thou wert pure and upright;
 * Surely now he would awake for thee,
 * And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
 * Though thy beginning was small,
 * Yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
 * For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age,
 * And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
 * (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
 * Because our days upon earth are a shadow:)