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¹ And Bildad the Shuhite answered, saying:² Until when will you speak these things, since the words of your mouth are like a mighty wind?³ Or does God pervert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?⁴ If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has sent them away in the hand of their transgression,⁵ if you would seek earnestly to God, and make your prayer to the Almighty,⁶ if you were pure and upright, surely now He would rise for you, and make whole the abode of your righteousness.⁷ And your beginning was small, yet your end would greatly increase.

⁸ For now ask of the former generation, and prepare to the search of their fathers;⁹ for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing because our days on earth are a shadow.¹⁰ Shall they not teach you, speak to you, and bring forth words out of their heart?¹¹ Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed grass grow without water?¹² While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before every plant.¹³ So are the paths of all those forgetting God; yea, the hope of the ungodly shall perish,¹⁴ whose hope is cut off, and his trust as a spider's house.¹⁵ He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not endure.¹⁶ He is moist before the sun, and his tender plants shoot forth on his garden.¹⁷ His roots are wrapped around a heap; he sees a house of stones.¹⁸ If one swallows him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying I have not seen you!¹⁹ Behold this is the joy of His way, and out of the earth others shall grow.

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away the innocent, and He will not help the evildoers,²¹ until He fills your mouth with laughter and your lips with rejoicing.²² Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall not be .