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8:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
8:2  “How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
8:3  Does God pervert justice, or Shaddai pervert righteousness?
8:4  If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the power of their transgression.
8:5  If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace.
8:6  If you are pure and upright, indeed, now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode.
8:7  Though your beginning was small, your end will be very great.
8:8  “Indeed, please inquire of former generations, and consider what their ancestors have found,
8:9  for we are of yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth are a shadow.
8:10  Will they themselves not teach you and tell you and utter words from their heart?
8:11  Can papyrus grow tall where there is not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water?
8:12  While it is in its flower and is not plucked, yet it withers before all grass.
8:13  So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless will perish,
8:14  whose confidence is cut off and whose trust is a spider’s house.
8:15  He will lean himself against his house, but it will not stand; he will take hold of it, but it will not endure.
8:16  He is thriving before the sun, and his plant shoots spread over his garden.
8:17  His roots twine over a stone heap; he sees a house of stone.
8:18  If he destroys him from his place, then it deceives him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
8:19  Look, this is the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.
8:20  “Look, God will not reject the blameless, and he will not uphold the hand of evildoers.
8:21  Yet he will fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with a shout of joy.
8:22  Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”