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| 1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:– |
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| 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?
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| 3 Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness? |
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| 4 Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression, |
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| 5 Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD,–and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication; |
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| 6 If, pure and upright, thou thyself, art, surely, now, will he answer thy prayer, and will prosper thy righteous habitation: |
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| 7 So shall thy beginning appear small,–when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase! |
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| 8 For inquire, I pray thee, of a former generation, and prepare thyself for the research of their fathers;– |
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| 9 For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth: |
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| 10 Shall, they, not teach thee–tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words? |
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| 11 Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water? |
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| 12 Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither: |
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| 13 So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish: |
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| 14 Whose trust shall be contemptible,–and, a spider's web, his confidence: |
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| 15 He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect. |
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| 16 Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth: |
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| 17 Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth; |
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| 18 If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him [saying]–I have not seen thee. |
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| 19 Lo! that, is the joy of his way,–and, out of the dust, shall others spring up. |
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| 20 Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers: |
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| 21 At length he shall fill with laughter thy mouth, and thy lips, with a shout of triumph: |
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| 22 They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be! |
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