- 1. ¶ THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
- 2. How long will you speak these things? And how long will your mouth utter proud words?
- 3. Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert right?
- 4. If your children have sinned against him, he has sent them away in their transgressions.
- 5. If you would seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,
- 6. If you were innocent and upright, surely then he would be attentive to you, and would make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous,
- 7. So that though your beginning was small he would make your end very great.
- 8. ¶ For inquire, I pray you, of the former generations, and learn through the search of their fathers;
- 9. For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are like a shadow;
- 10. And, behold, they shall teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart.
- 11. Can papyrus grow in a thirsty land? Can reeds grow where there is no water?
- 12. While they are yet in their greenness, and not cut down, they wither before any other herb.
- 13. So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the heathen shall perish;
- 14. Whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose house is a spider’s web.
- 15. The wicked shall put his trust in his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
- 16. He is like green vegetation before the sun, and his roots shall rest in a ground liable to be washed away.
- 17. He shall see his house a heap of stones.
- 18. If he is uprooted from his place, then he will deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
- 19. Behold, it is he who examines all his ways, and out of the earth others shall sprout.
- 20. ¶ Behold, God will not reject the upright men, nor will he help the evildoers;
- 21. Until he fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a song.
- 22. Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be destroyed.
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