| 1 | And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, |
| 2 | How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind? |
| 3 | Doth �God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice? |
| 4 | If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression. |
| 5 | If thou seek earnestly unto �God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty, |
| 6 | If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous; |
| 7 | And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great. |
| 8 | For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers; |
| 9 | For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow. |
| 10 | Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? |
| 11 | Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water? |
| 12 | Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass. |
| 13 | So are the paths of all that forget �God; and the profane man's hope shall perish, |
| 14 | Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web. |
| 15 | He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure. |
| 16 | He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden; |
| 17 | His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones. |
| 18 | If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee! |
| 19 | Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow. |
| 20 | Behold, �God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand. |
| 21 | Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting, |
| 22 | They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more. |