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