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  • Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent

    Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
  • Bildad: Job Should Repent

    And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
  • “How long will you say these things,
    and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
  • How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
  • Does God pervert justice?
    Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
  • Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
  • If your children have sinned against him,
    he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
  • If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
  • If you will seek God
    and plead with the Almighty for mercy,
  • If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
  • if you are pure and upright,
    surely then he will rouse himself for you
    and restore your rightful habitation.
  • If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
  • And though your beginning was small,
    your latter days will be very great.
  • And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
  • “For inquire, please, of bygone ages,
    and consider what the fathers have searched out.
  • For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
  • For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
    for our days on earth are a shadow.
  • For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
  • Will they not teach you and tell you
    and utter words out of their understanding?
  • Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
  • “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
    Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
  • Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
  • While yet in flower and not cut down,
    they wither before any other plant.
  • Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
  • Such are the paths of all who forget God;
    the hope of the godless shall perish.
  • So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
  • His confidence is severed,
    and his trust is a spider’s web.a
  • Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
  • He leans against his house, but it does not stand;
    he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
  • He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
  • He is a lush plant before the sun,
    and his shoots spread over his garden.
  • He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
  • His roots entwine the stone heap;
    he looks upon a house of stones.
  • His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
  • If he is destroyed from his place,
    then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
  • If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
  • Behold, this is the joy of his way,
    and out of the soil others will spring.
  • Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
  • “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,
    nor take the hand of evildoers.
  • Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
  • He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
    and your lips with shouting.
  • Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
  • Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
    and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
  • They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.

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