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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.