Job 8 · איוב

Then answered Bildad the Shuĥite, and said,

How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?

If thy children have sinned against him, he has cast them out for their transgression.

If thou wilt seek to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

if thou be pure and upright; surely now he will rouse himself for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy end will be very great.

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and attend assiduously to what their fathers have sought out:

(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

Can the rush shoot up without mire? can the reed grass grow without water?

Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish,

whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth over his garden wall.

His roots are wrapped about the stone heap: he selects for himself a place of stones.

But if one destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others spring.

Behold, God will not cast away an innocent man, nor will he uphold evildoers.

He will yet fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

They who hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.