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:)