- 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
- 2. "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
- 3. Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
- 4. If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
- 5. If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
- 6. If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- 7. Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
- 8. "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
- 9. (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
- 10. Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
- 11. "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
- 12. While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
- 13. So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
- 14. Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
- 15. He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
- 16. He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.
- 17. His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
- 18. If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'
- 19. Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
- 20. "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
- 21. He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
- 22. Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
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