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1 - And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

2 - Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind--sayings of thy mouth?

3 - Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

4 - If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

5 - If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

6 - If pure and upright thou <FI>art<Fi> , Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

7 - And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

8 - For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

9 - (For of yesterday we <FI>are<Fi> , and we know not, For a shadow <FI>are<Fi> our days on earth.)

10 - Do they not shew thee--speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

11 - `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?

12 - While it <FI>is<Fi> in its budding--uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

13 - So <FI>are<Fi> the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

14 - Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

15 - He leaneth on his house--and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it--and it abideth not.

16 - Green he <FI>is<Fi> before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.

17 - By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

18 - If <FI>one<Fi> doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!

19 - Lo, this <FI>is<Fi> the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'

20 - Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

21 - While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,

22 - Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!