1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2 "How long will you speak these things?
Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
3 Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
4 If your children have sinned against him,
he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
5 If you want to seek God diligently,
make your supplication to the Almighty.
6 If you were pure and upright,
surely now he would awaken for you,
and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
7 Though your beginning was small,
yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8 "Please inquire of past generations.
Find out about the learning of their fathers.
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
because our days on earth are a shadow.)
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you,
and utter words out of their heart?
11 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire?
Can the rushes grow without water?
12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down,
it withers before any other reed.
13 So are the paths of all who forget God.
The hope of the godless man will perish,
14 whose confidence will break apart,
whose trust is a spider’s web.
15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand.
He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
16 He is green before the sun.
His shoots go out along his garden.
17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile.
He sees the place of stones.
18 If he is destroyed from his place,
then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way.
Out of the earth, others will spring.
20 "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man,
neither will he uphold the evildoers.
21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter,
your lips with shouting.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame.
The tent of the wicked will be no more."
1 书亚人比勒达回答说：
2 "这些话你要说到几时， 你口中的言语像狂风到几时呢？
3 神怎会歪曲公平？全能者怎会屈枉公义？
4 你的儿女若得罪了他， 他就因他们的过犯撇弃他们。
5 你若殷勤寻求 神， 向全能者恳求；
6 你若又洁净又正直， 他就必为你奋起， 复兴你公义的居所。
7 你起初虽然微小， 到后来必定非常兴旺。
8 请你查问前几代， 留意他们列祖所查究的。
9 我们只是昨天才有的， 所以一无所知； 我们在世的日子不过是影儿。
10 难道他们不指教你， 从心里发出言语来吗？
11 蒲草没有泥， 怎能生长？芦苇没有水， 怎能长大呢？
12 尚青还没有割下来的时候， 就比百草先枯槁。
13 忘记 神的， 他们的末路也是这样； 不敬虔的人， 他的指望必成泡影。
14 他所自恃的， 必被折断； 他所靠赖的， 不过是蜘蛛网。
15 他倚靠自己的家， 家却立不住， 他抓紧自己的家， 家却存不久。
16 他在阳光之下， 枝润叶青， 它的嫩枝长满园子，
17 它的根缠绕石堆， 扎入石地之中。
18 他若从本处被拔除， 那处就否认他， 说： ‘我没有见过你。’
19 看哪， 这就是他人生的乐趣， 往后必有别的人从尘土中生出来。
20 看哪， 神必不离弃完全人， 也不扶助行恶的人之手；
21 他还要以欢笑充满你的口， 以欢呼充满你的嘴。
22 恨你的都必以羞耻为衣， 恶人的帐棚必归于无有。"