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¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:² How long wilt thou speak these things, seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind?³ Doth God pervert judgment? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?⁴ If thy children sinned against Him, He delivered them into the hand of their transgression.⁵ If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;⁶ If thou wert pure and upright; surely now He would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.⁷ And though thy beginning was small, yet thy end should greatly increase.

⁸ For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out--⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow--¹⁰ Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?¹¹ Can the rush shoot up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?¹² Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.¹³ So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the godless man shall perish;¹⁴ Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.¹⁶ He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.¹⁷ His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.¹⁸ If he be destroyed 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 earth shall others spring.

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away an innocent man, neither will He uphold the evil-doers;²¹ Till He fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.²² They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.