8:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

8:2  "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

8:3  Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

8:4  If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;

8:5  If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to the Almighty.

8:6  If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

8:7  Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.

8:8  "Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers.

8:9  (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)

8:10  Shall they not teach you, tell you, And utter words out of their heart?

8:11  "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

8:12  While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.

8:13  So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

8:14  Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

8:15  He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

8:16  He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.

8:17  His roots are wrapped around the rock pile, He sees the place of stones.

8:18  If he is destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'

8:19  Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.

8:20  "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

8:21  He will still fill your mouth with laughter, Your lips with shouting.

8:22  Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."