1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2“How long will you speak these things?
3Does God pervert justice?
4If your children have sinned against him,
5If you want to seek God diligently,
6If you were pure and upright,
7Though your beginning was small,
8“Please inquire of past generations.
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
10Shall they not teach you, tell you,
11“Can the papyrus grow up without mire?
12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down,
13So are the paths of all who forget God.
14whose confidence will break apart,
15He will lean on his house, but it will not stand.
16He is green before the sun.
17His roots are wrapped around the rock pile.
18If he is destroyed from his place,
19Behold, this is the joy of his way.
20“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man,
21He will still fill your mouth with laughter,
22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame.