Bildad: Job Should Repent

1And Bildad the Shuhite will answer and say,

2How long wilt thou speak these things? and the great spirit of the words of thy mouth?

3Will God pervert judgment? and if the Almighty will pervert justice?

4If thy sons sinned to him, and he will send them away by the hand of their transgression;

5If thou shalt seek to God, if thou shalt make supplication to him;

6If thou wert pure and upright, for now he will awake for thee and requite the habitation of thy justice.

7And thy beginning was small, and thy latter state shall increase greatly.

8For ask now to the first generation, and prepare to seek their fathers:

9(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)

10Shall they not teach thee, and say to thee, and bring forth words from their heart?

11Shall the bulrush lift itself up without a marsh? shall the marsh grass grow without water?

12While yet in its greenness it shall not break off, and it will dry up before grass.

13So the paths of all forgetting God and the hope of the profane one shall perish.

14Which his hope shall be cut off, and the spider's house his trust.

15He shall lean upon his house and it shall not stand: he shall hold fast upon it, and it shall not rise up.

16It was moist before the sun, and its sprout will come forth upon his garden.

17His roots were entwined upon a heap, he shall see a house of stones.

18If he should swallow him down from his place, and it lied upon it: I saw thee not.

19Behold, this the rejoicing of his way, and from the dust shall they cause another to grow.

20Behold, God will not reject the blameless one, and he will not take hold upon the hand of those doing evil:

21Till he shall fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with shouts of joy.

22They hating thee shall put on shame; and the tent of the unjust shall not be.