Job

¹ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

² And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

³ Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

⁴ Then He sent them into the power of their transgression.

⁵ And plead for the grace of the Almighty,

⁶ Indeed now He would rouse Himself for you And make your righteous abode at peace.

⁷ Yet your end will increase greatly.

⁸ And establish the things searched out by their fathers.

⁹ Because our days on earth are but a shadow.

¹⁰ And bring forth words from their hearts?

¹¹ Can the rushes grow without water?

¹² Yet it dries up before any other plant.

¹³ And the hope of the godless will perish,

¹⁴ And whose trust a spider’s web.

¹⁵ He holds fast to it, but it is not established.

¹⁶ And his shoots go forth over his garden.

¹⁷ He looks upon a house of stones.

¹⁸ Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

¹⁹ And out of the dust others will spring.

²⁰ Nor will He strengthen the hand of the evildoers.

²¹ And your lips with shouting.

²² And the tent of the wicked will be no longer.”