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2“How long will you say such things?
Your words are a blustering wind.

3Does God pervert justice?
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

4When your children sinned against him,
he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

5But if you will look to God
and plead with the Almighty,

6if you are pure and upright,
even now he will rouse himself on your behalf
and restore you to your rightful place.

7Your beginnings will seem humble,
so prosperous will your future be.

8“Ask the former generations
and find out what their fathers learned,

9for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,
and our days on earth are but a shadow.

10Will they not instruct you and tell you?
Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?

11Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?
Can reeds thrive without water?

12While still growing and uncut,
they wither more quickly than grass.

13Such is the destiny of all who forget God;
so perishes the hope of the godless.

14What he trusts in is fragileThe meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.;
what he relies on is a spider's web.

15He leans on his web, but it gives way;
he clings to it, but it does not hold.

16He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
spreading its shoots over the garden;

17it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks
and looks for a place among the stones.

18But when it is torn from its spot,
that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’

19Surely its life withers away,
andOr Surely all the joy it has / is that from the soil other plants grow.

20“Surely God does not reject a blameless man
or strengthen the hands of evildoers.