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8:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
8:2  “How long will you say these things? The words of your mouth are like a mighty wind.
8:3  Does God pervert justice? Does Shaddai pervert justice?
8:4  If your children sinned against Him, He handed them over to their rebellion.
8:5  If you would seek God and plead with Shaddai,
8:6  if you are pure and upright, even now He will awaken for you and restore your righteous abode.
8:7  And though your beginning was small, your future would flourish.
8:8  Now ask the previous generation; consider the findings of their fathers;
8:9  for we were born yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
8:10  Will they not teach you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their hearts?
8:11  “Can papyrus grow tall without a marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?
8:12  When still in bloom and uncut, it withers more quickly than other grass.
8:13  Such are the ways of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes—
8:14  whose confidence is snapped off, his trust is a spider’s web.
8:15  He leans against his house but it does not stand, He holds fast to it, but it does not hold up.
8:16  He is a well-watered plant in the sun, spreading his shoots over his garden;
8:17  he entwines his roots around a heap of stones, and looks for a place between the rocks.
8:18  If he is uprooted from his place, it denies him saying, ‘I never saw you.’
8:19  Such is his joyous course, and from the earth others spring up.
8:20  Surely God does not spurn the blameless or strengthen the hand of evildoers.
8:21  He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
8:22  Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more!”