1<\/sup>But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity,<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness,<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers,<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>(of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: “I do not know you.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>For this is the benefit of his way, that others in turn may spring up from the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful,<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Those who hate you, will be clothed with confusion, and the tabernacle of the impious will not continue.<\/span> <\/p>\n