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¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,² How long will you speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of your mouth be [like] a mighty wind?³ Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?⁴ If your sons have sinned against him, And he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression;⁵ If you would seek diligently to God, And make your supplication to the Almighty;⁶ If you were pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.⁷ And though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.

⁸ For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, And apply yourself to that which their fathers have searched out:⁹ (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow);¹⁰ Shall not they teach you, and tell you, And utter words out of their heart?¹¹ Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?¹² While it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withers before any [other] herb.¹³ So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:¹⁴ Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web.¹⁵ He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.¹⁶ He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.¹⁷ His roots are wrapped about the [stone]-heap, He looks at the place of stones.¹⁸ If he is destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I haven't seen you.¹⁹ Look, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.

²⁰ Look, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.²¹ He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, And your lips with shouting.²² Those that hate you shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.