1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied,2‘Job, how long will you talk like that? Your words don’t have any meaning.3Does God ever treat people unfairly? Does the Mighty One make what is wrong appear to be right?4Your children sinned against him. So he punished them for their sin.5But seek God with all your heart. Make your appeal to the Mighty One.6Be pure and honest. And he will rise up and help you now. He’ll give you everything you had before.7In the past, things went well with you. But in days to come, things will get even better.8‘Find out what our parents taught. Discover what those who lived before them learned.9After all, we were born only yesterday. So we don’t know anything. Our days on this earth are like a shadow that disappears.10Won’t your people of long ago teach you and tell you? Won’t the things they said help you understand?11Can grass grow tall where there isn’t any swamp? Can plants grow well where there isn’t any water?12While they are still growing and haven’t been cut, they dry up faster than grass does.13The same thing happens to everyone who forgets God. The hope of ungodly people dies out.14What they trust in is very weak. What they depend on is like a spider’s web.15They lean on it, but it falls apart. They hold on to it, but it gives way.16They are like a plant in the sunshine that receives plenty of water. It spreads its new growth all over the garden.17It wraps its roots around a pile of rocks. It tries to find places to grow among the stones.18But when the plant is pulled up from its spot, that place says, “I never saw you.”19The life of that plant is sure to dry up. But from the same soil other plants will grow.20‘I’m sure God doesn’t turn his back on anyone who is honest. And he doesn’t help those who do what is evil.21He will fill your mouth with laughter. Shouts of joy will come from your lips.22Your enemies will put on shame as if it were clothes. The tents of sinful people will be gone.’
English Standard Version
Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:2“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.5If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,6if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.7And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.8“For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.9For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.10Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?11“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?12While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.13Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.14His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider’s web.*15He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.16He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.17His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones.18If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring.20“Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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