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¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,² Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde?³ Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?⁴ If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,⁵ Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,⁶ If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.⁷ And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.

⁸ Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.⁹ (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)¹⁰ Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?¹¹ Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water?¹² Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.¹³ So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.¹⁴ His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.¹⁵ He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.¹⁶ The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.¹⁷ The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.¹⁸ If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,¹⁹ Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,²¹ Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.²² They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.