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¹ Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said, ² How long wilt thou speak these things, how long shall the breath of thy mouth be abundant in words? ³ Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice? ⁴ If thy sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression. ⁵ But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty. ⁶ If thou art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication, and will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness. ⁷ Though then thy beginning should be small, yet thy end should be unspeakably great.

⁸ For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers: ⁹ (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:) ¹⁰ shall not these teach thee, and report to thee, and bring out words from their heart? ¹¹ Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture? ¹² When it is yet on the root, and though it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture? ¹³ Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish. ¹⁴ For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider’s web. ¹⁵ If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain. ¹⁶ For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap. ¹⁷ He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints. ¹⁸ If God should destroy him, his place shall deny him. Hast thou not seen such things, ¹⁹ that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.

²⁰ For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly. ²¹ But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving. ²² But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.