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¹ THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,² How long will you speak these things? And how long will your mouth utter proud words?³ Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert right?⁴ If your children have sinned against him, he has sent them away in their transgressions.⁵ If you would seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,⁶ If you were innocent and upright, surely then he would be attentive to you, and would make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous,⁷ So that though your beginning was small he would make your end very great.

⁸ For inquire, I pray you, of the former generations, and learn through the search of their fathers;⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are like a shadow;¹⁰ And, behold, they shall teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart.¹¹ Can papyrus grow in a thirsty land? Can reeds grow where there is no water?¹² While they are yet in their greenness, and not cut down, they wither before any other herb.¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the heathen shall perish;¹⁴ Whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose house is a spiders web.¹⁵ The wicked shall put his trust in his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.¹⁶ He is like green vegetation before the sun, and his roots shall rest in a ground liable to be washed away.¹⁷ He shall see his house a heap of stones.¹⁸ If he is uprooted from his place, then he will deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.¹⁹ Behold, it is he who examines all his ways, and out of the earth others shall sprout.

²⁰ Behold, God will not reject the upright men, nor will he help the evildoers;²¹ Until he fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a song.²² Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be destroyed.