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¹ Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:² How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?³ Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?⁴ Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:⁵ Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:⁶ If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:⁷ In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.

⁸ For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:⁹ (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow¹⁰ And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.¹¹ Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?¹² When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked u with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.¹³ Even so are the ways of all that forget God, an the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:¹⁴ His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, and it shall no stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:¹⁶ He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.¹⁷ His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.¹⁸ If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.¹⁹ For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.

²⁰ God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:²¹ Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.²² They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.