1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long wilt thou speak these things?
3 Doth God pervert justice?
4 If thy children have sinned against him,
5 If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God,
6 If thou wert pure and upright:
7 And though thy beginning was small,
8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age,
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee,
11 Can the rush grow up without mire?
12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness,
13 So are the paths of all that forget God;
14 Whose confidence shall break in sunder,
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand:
16 He is green before the sun,
17 His roots are wrapped about the
18 If he be destroyed from his place,
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way;
20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man,
21 He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter,
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame;