- 1. And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
- 2. Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth?
- 3. Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
- 4. If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
- 5. If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
- 6. If pure and upright thou `art', Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
- 7. And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
- 8. For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,
- 9. (For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)
- 10. Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?
- 11. `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?
- 12. While it `is' in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.
- 13. So `are' the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
- 14. Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
- 15. He leaneth on his house -- and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it -- and it abideth not.
- 16. Green he `is' before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
- 17. By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.
- 18. If `one' doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!
- 19. Lo, this `is' the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'
- 20. Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.
- 21. While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,
- 22. Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!
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