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1 And Bildad the Shuhite will answer and say, Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and the great spirit of the words of thy mouth? “How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? “How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.
3 Will God pervert judgment? and if the Almighty will pervert justice? Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4 If thy sons sinned to him, and he will send them away by the hand of their transgression; If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
5 If thou shalt seek to God, if thou shalt make supplication to him; If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,
6 If thou wert pure and upright, for now he will awake for thee and requite the habitation of thy justice. if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation. if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.
7 And thy beginning was small, and thy latter state shall increase greatly. And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great. Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
8 For ask now to the first generation, and prepare to seek their fathers: “For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out. “Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,
9 (For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:) For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow. for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
10 Shall they not teach thee, and say to thee, and bring forth words from their heart? Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding? Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
11 Shall the bulrush lift itself up without a marsh? shall the marsh grass grow without water? “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water? Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
12 While yet in its greenness it shall not break off, and it will dry up before grass. While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant. While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
13 So the paths of all forgetting God and the hope of the profane one shall perish. Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish. Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
14 Which his hope shall be cut off, and the spider's house his trust. His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider’s web. What they trust in is fragile; what they rely on is a spider’s web.
15 He shall lean upon his house and it shall not stand: he shall hold fast upon it, and it shall not rise up. He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure. They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.
16 It was moist before the sun, and its sprout will come forth upon his garden. He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden. They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;
17 His roots were entwined upon a heap, he shall see a house of stones. His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones. it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.
18 If he should swallow him down from his place, and it lied upon it: I saw thee not. If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
19 Behold, this the rejoicing of his way, and from the dust shall they cause another to grow. Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring. Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow.
20 Behold, God will not reject the blameless one, and he will not take hold upon the hand of those doing evil: “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers. “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
21 Till he shall fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with shouts of joy. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
22 They hating thee shall put on shame; and the tent of the unjust shall not be. Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.” Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”
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