| 1 | The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said: |
| 2 | How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? |
| 3 | Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just? |
| 4 | Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity: |
| 5 | Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: |
| 6 | If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable: |
| 7 | Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly. |
| 8 | For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: |
| 9 | (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:) |
| 10 | And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts. |
| 11 | Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water? |
| 12 | When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs. |
| 13 | Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish: |
| 14 | His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web. |
| 15 | He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise: |
| 16 | He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth. |
| 17 | His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide. |
| 18 | If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not. |
| 19 | For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth. |
| 20 | God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer: |
| 21 | Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing. |
| 22 | They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand. |
