1. Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2. How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
3. Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
4. If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their transgression;
5. If you would seek for God early, 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. Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8. For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to study their fathers:
9. (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10. Shall they not teach you, and tell you, and speak words out of their heart?
11. Can the rush grow up without mire? can the marsh grass grow without water?
12. While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.
13. So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
14. Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
15. He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16. He is green before the sun, and his branch grows out into his garden.
17. His roots are wrapped around the heap, and he sees the place of stones.
18. If he should destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.
19. Behold, such is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
20. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evildoers:
21. Till he fills your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.
22. Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.
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