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8:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuchi, and said,
8:2  How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a raging ruach (wind)?
8:3  Doth El pervert mishpat (justice)? Or doth Shaddai pervert tzedek?
8:4  If thy banim have sinned against Him, and He have cast them away for their peysha (transgression);
8:5  If thou wouldest seek El (G-d) earnestly, and make thy techinnah (supplication) to Shaddai;
8:6  If thou wert pure and yashar; surely now He would rouse Himself for thee, and restore the habitation of thy tzedek.
8:7  Though thy reshit (beginning) was small, yet thy acharit (end) shall be exceedingly great.
8:8  For inquire, now, of the dor rishon (former age), and consider the research of their avot;
8:9  —For we are but of temol (yesterday, etmol) and know nothing, because yameinu (our days) upon earth are a tzel (shadow)—
8:10  Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and bring forth words out of their lev?
8:11  Can the papyrus grow up without marsh? Can the reed grow without mayim?
8:12  Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before kol khatzir (all grass).
8:13  So are the paths of all that forget El (G-d), and the tikvat chanef (hope of the hypocrite, the irreligious, the secretly wicked profane person) shall perish,
8:14  Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose reliance shall be a bais akavish (spider’s web).
8:15  He shall lean upon his bais, but it shall not stand, he shall cling to it, but it shall not hold.
8:16  He is like a green plant before the shemesh, and its branch shooteth forth in its gan (garden).
8:17  Its shorashim (roots) are wrapped about the rock heap, and it looks on the bais avanim (place of stones).
8:18  But when cast away from its makom, then its place shall deny it, saying, Loh re’iticha (I never saw thee).
8:19  Behold, thus was the joy of its derech, and others spring forth from the aphar (dust).
8:20  Surely El (G-d) will not cast away a blameless man, neither will He help the resha’im (evil-doers);
8:21  Till He fill thy mouth with sechok (laughter), and thy lips with teruah (shouts of joy).
8:22  They that hate thee shall be clothed with bushah (shame), and the ohel resha’im shall be no more.