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¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ² How long wilt thou speake these things? and how long shall the wordes of thy mouth be like a strong wind? ³ Doth God peruert iudgement? or doth the Almightie peruert iustice? ⁴ If thy children haue sinned against him, and he haue cast them away for their transgression: ⁵ If thou wouldest seeke vnto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almightie: ⁶ If thou wert pure and vpright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousnes prosperous. ⁷ Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

⁸ For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to the search of their fathers. ⁹ (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our dayes vpon earth are a shadow.) ¹⁰ Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, & vtter words out of their heart? ¹¹ Can the rush growe vp without myre? can the flag growe without water? ¹² Whilest it is yet in his greennesse, and not cut downe, it withereth before any other herbe. ¹³ So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish: ¹⁴ Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web. ¹⁵ He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal hold it fast, but it shall not endure. ¹⁶ He is greene before the sunne, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. ¹⁷ His roots are wrapped about the heape, and seeth the place of stones. ¹⁸ If he destroy him from his place, then it shal denie him, saying, I haue not seene thee. ¹⁹ Beholde, this is the ioy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will hee helpe the euill doers: ²¹ Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with reioycing. ²² They that hate thee shall be cloathed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.