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  • 1. Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
  • 2. How long wilt thou speake these things? and how long shall the wordes of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
  • 3. Doth God peruert iudgement? or doth the Almightie peruert iustice?
  • 4. If thy children haue sinned against him, and he haue cast them away for their transgression:
  • 5. If thou wouldest seeke vnto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almightie:
  • 6. If thou wert pure and vpright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousnes prosperous.
  • 7. Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
  • 8. For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to the search of their fathers.
  • 9. (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our dayes vpon earth are a shadow.)
  • 10. Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, & vtter words out of their heart?
  • 11. Can the rush growe vp without myre? can the flag growe without water?
  • 12. Whilest it is yet in his greennesse, and not cut downe, it withereth before any other herbe.
  • 13. So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish:
  • 14. Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.
  • 15. He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
  • 16. He is greene before the sunne, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
  • 17. His roots are wrapped about the heape, and seeth the place of stones.
  • 18. If he destroy him from his place, then it shal denie him, saying, I haue not seene thee.
  • 19. Beholde, this is the ioy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
  • 20. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will hee helpe the euill doers:
  • 21. Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with reioycing.
  • 22. They that hate thee shall be cloathed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.