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¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: ² "How long will you speak these things, And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? ³ Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice? ⁴ If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression. ⁵ If you would earnestly seek God And make your supplication to the Almighty, ⁶ If you were pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you, And prosper your rightful dwelling place. ⁷ Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.

⁸ "For inquire, please, of the former age, And consider the things discovered by their fathers; ⁹ For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow. ¹⁰ Will they not teach you and tell you, And utter words from their heart? ¹¹ "Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the reeds flourish without water? ¹² While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers before any other plant. ¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish, ¹⁴ Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider's web. ¹⁵ He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He holds it fast, but it does not endure. ¹⁶ He grows green in the sun, And his branches spread out in his garden. ¹⁷ His roots wrap around the rock heap, And look for a place in the stones. ¹⁸ If he is destroyed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, "I have not seen you.' ¹⁹ "Behold, this is the joy of His way, And out of the earth others will grow.

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away the blameless, Nor will He uphold the evildoers. ²¹ He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, And your lips with rejoicing. ²² 22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,And the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing." [fn]