| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"If your sons sinned against Him, Then He delivered them into the power of their transgression. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"If you would seek God And implore the compassion of the Almighty, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6If you are pure and upright, Surely now He would rouse Himself for you And restore your righteous estate. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Though your beginning was insignificant, Yet your end will increase greatly. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Please inquire of past generations, And consider the things searched out by their fathers. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"For we are only of yesterday and know nothing, Because our days on earth are as a shadow. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Will they not teach you and tell you, And bring forth words from their minds? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the rushes grow without water? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"While it is still green and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the godless will perish, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Whose confidence is fragile, And whose trust a spider's web. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"He trusts in his house, but it does not stand; He holds fast to it, but it does not endure. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"He thrives before the sun, And his shoots spread out over his garden. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"His roots wrap around a rock pile, He grasps a house of stones. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"If he is removed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, 'I never saw you.' |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Behold, this is the joy of His way; And out of the dust others will spring. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Lo, God will not reject a man of integrity, Nor will He support the evildoers. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"He will yet fill your mouth with laughter And your lips with shouting. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, And the tent of the wicked will be no longer." |
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