And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
How long wilt thou recite these [things],{HR}And the words of thy mouth [be] a strong wind?
Doth God pervert right,{HR}And the Almighty pervert justice?
If thy children have sinned against him,{HR}And he hath cast them into the hand of their transgression;
If thou seekest earnestly unto God,{HR}And makest supplication to the Almighty,
If thou [wert] pure and upright,{HR}He would surely now wake up for thee,{HR}And restore the habitation of thy righteousness;
And though thy beginning were small,{HR}Yet thy latter end would flourish greatly.
Inquire now of the former generation,{HR}And give heed to the research of their fathers
(For we [are of] yesterday, and know not,{HR}For our days on earth are a shadow);
Shall not they teach thee, say to thee,{HR}And bring forth words out of their heart?
Doth the reed shoot up without mire?{HR}Doth the flag spread out without water?
While yet in its greenness, it is not cut down,{HR}Before all grass doth it dry up.
So [are] the ways of all that forget God,{HR}And the hope of the polluted perisheth,
Whose confidence is out off,{HR}And his truth a spider’s house;
He leaneth on his house, but it standeth not,{HR}He fasteneth on it, but it abideth not.
Green [is] he before the sun,{HR}And his suckers run over his garden;
His roots are entwined over the stone-heap,{HR}He looketh on a house of stone,
When he is swallowed out of its place,{HR}Then will it deny him: I saw thee not.
Lo, this [is] the joy of his way,{HR}And out of the dust sprout, others;
Lo, God will not forsake a perfect [man],{HR}Nor graspeth evil-doers by the hand,
Till he fill thy mouth with laughter,{HR}And thy lips with shouting:
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame{HR}And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.