Bildad: Job Should Repent 1Then aunswered Bildad the Suhite, & said: 2Howe long wilt thou talke of such thinges? howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie wind? 3Doth God paruert the thing that is lawfull? or doth the almightie destroy the thing that is right? 4For seyng that thy sonnes sinned against him, did not he send them into the place of their iniquitie? 5If thou wouldest nowe resorte vnto God be times, and make thy prayer to the almightie, 6If thou wouldest liue a pure and godly life: shoulde he not awake vp vnto thee immediatly, and make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous? 7In so much that wherin so euer thou haddest litle afore, thou shouldest haue nowe great aboundaunce. 8Enquire I pray thee of the former age, and search diligently among their fathers: 9(For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe.) 10Shall not they shew thee, and tel thee, yea and gladly confesse the same, and vtter the wordes of their heart? 11May a rushe be greene without moystnesse? or may the grasse growe without water? 12No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe: 13So are the pathes of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall come to naught. 14His confidence shalbe destroyed, and his trust shalbe a spiders webbe. 15He shal leane vpon his house, but it shal not stande: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
16It is a greene
17The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountayne, and are folden about the house of stones.
18If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee:
19Behold it will reioyce by this meanes, if it may growe in another mould.
20Beholde, God will not cast away a vertuous man, neither wil he helpe the vngodly.
21Thy mouth shall he fill with laughing, and thy lippes with gladnesse.
22They also that hate thee shalbe clothed with shame, & the dwelling of the vngodly shall come to naught. |
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