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¹ Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: - ² How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?³ Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?⁴ Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,⁵ Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD, - and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;⁶ If, pure and upright, thou thyself, art, surely, now, will he answer thy prayer, and will prosper thy righteous habitation:⁷ So shall thy beginning appear small, - when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!

⁸ For inquire, I pray thee, of a former generation, and prepare thyself for the research of their fathers; - ⁹ For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:¹⁰ Shall, they, not teach thee - tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words?¹¹ Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?¹² Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:¹³ So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:¹⁴ Whose trust shall be contemptible, - and, a spider's web, his confidence:¹⁵ He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect.¹⁶ Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:¹⁷ Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;¹⁸ If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him saying - I have not seen thee.¹⁹ Lo! that, is the joy of his way, - and, out of the dust, shall others spring up.

²⁰ Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers:²¹ At length he shall fill with laughter thy mouth, and thy lips, with a shout of triumph:²² They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!