1. And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
2. Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind--sayings of thy mouth?
3. Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
4. If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
5. If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
6. If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
7. And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
8. For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,