Job. Chapter 8. And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says: “Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth? Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice? If your sons have sinned before Him, || And He sends them away, || By the hand of their transgression, If you seek for God early, || And make supplication to the Mighty, If you are pure and upright, || Surely now He wakes for you, || And has completed || The habitation of your righteousness. And your beginning has been small, || And your latter end is very great. For inquire, please, of a former generation, || And prepare for a search of their fathers, For we are of yesterday, and we do not know, || For our days are a shadow on earth. Do they not show you—speak to you, || And from their heart bring forth words? Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water? While it is in its budding—uncropped, || Even before any herb it withers. So are the paths of all forgetting God, || And the hope of the profane perishes, Whose confidence is loathsome, || And the house of a spider his trust. He leans on his house—and it does not stand, || He takes hold on it—and it does not abide. He is green before the sun, || And over his garden his branch goes out. His roots are wrapped by a heap, || He looks for a house of stones. If one destroys him from his place, || Then it has feigned concerning him, || I have not seen you! Behold, this is the joy of His way, || And from the dust others spring up. Behold, God does not reject the perfect, || Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers. While He fills your mouth with laughter, || And your lips with shouting, Those hating you put on shame, || And the tent of the wicked is not!”