Job 8

And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:

“Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?

Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?

If your sons have sinned before Him, || And He sends them away, || By the hand of their transgression,

If you seek for God early, || And make supplication to the Mighty,

If you [are] pure and upright, || Surely now He wakes for you, || And has completed || The habitation of your righteousness.

And your beginning has been small, || And your latter end is very great.

For inquire, please, of a former generation, || And prepare for a search of their fathers,

For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, || For our days [are] a shadow on earth.

Do they not show you—speak to you, || And from their heart bring forth words?

Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water?

While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, || Even before any herb it withers.

So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, || And the hope of the profane perishes,

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

He leans on his house—and it does not stand, || He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.

He [is] green before the sun, || And over his garden his branch goes out.

His roots are wrapped by a heap, || He looks for a house of stones.

If [one] destroys him from his place, || Then it has feigned concerning him, || I have not seen you!

Behold, this [is] the joy of His way, || And from the dust others spring up.

Behold, God does not reject the perfect, || Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers.

While He fills your mouth with laughter, || And your lips with shouting,

Those hating you put on shame, || And the tent of the wicked is not!”