- 1. Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,
- 2. Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde?
- 3. Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?
- 4. If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,
- 5. Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,
- 6. If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.
- 7. And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.
- 8. Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.
- 9. (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)
- 10. Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?
- 11. Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water?
- 12. Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.
- 13. So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.
- 14. His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.
- 15. He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
- 16. The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.
- 17. The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.
- 18. If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,
- 19. Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.
- 20. Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,
- 21. Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.
- 22. They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.
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