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  • 1. Then aunswered Bildad the Suhite, & said:
  • 2. Howe long wilt thou talke of such thinges? howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie wind?
  • 3. Doth God paruert the thing that is lawfull? or doth the almightie destroy the thing that is right?
  • 4. For seyng that thy sonnes sinned against him, did not he send them into the place of their iniquitie?
  • 5. If thou wouldest nowe resorte vnto God be times, and make thy prayer to the almightie,
  • 6. If thou wouldest liue a pure and godly life: shoulde he not awake vp vnto thee immediatly, and make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous?
  • 7. In so much that wherin so euer thou haddest litle afore, thou shouldest haue nowe great aboundaunce.
  • 8. Enquire I pray thee of the former age, and search diligently among their fathers:
  • 9. (For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe.)
  • 10. Shall not they shew thee, and tel thee, yea and gladly confesse the same, and vtter the wordes of their heart?
  • 11. May a rushe be greene without moystnesse? or may the grasse growe without water?
  • 12. No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe:
  • 13. So are the pathes of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall come to naught.
  • 14. His confidence shalbe destroyed, and his trust shalbe a spiders webbe.
  • 15. He shal leane vpon his house, but it shal not stande: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
  • 16. It is a greene [tree] before the sunne, & shooteth foorth the braunches ouer his garden.
  • 17. The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountayne, and are folden about the house of stones.
  • 18. If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee:
  • 19. Behold it will reioyce by this meanes, if it may growe in another mould.
  • 20. Beholde, God will not cast away a vertuous man, neither wil he helpe the vngodly.
  • 21. Thy mouth shall he fill with laughing, and thy lippes with gladnesse.
  • 22. They also that hate thee shalbe clothed with shame, & the dwelling of the vngodly shall come to naught.