1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: 2“How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind. 3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right? 4When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin. 5But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty, 6if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state. 7Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
8“Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned, 9for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow. 10Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding? 11Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water? 12While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass. 13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless. 14What they trust in is fragile⚓ ; what they rely on is a spider’s web. 15They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold. 16They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden; 17it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones. 18But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’ 19Surely its life withers away, and⚓ from the soil other plants grow.
20“Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers. 21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. 22Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”
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Npida hais
1Ces Npida uas yog neeg Su‑a teb tias, 2“Koj yuav yws li no ntev li cas thiab tej lus uas tawm hauv koj lub qhov ncauj yuav ua cua daj cua dub ntev li cas? 3Vajtswv ntxeev txojkev ua ncaj lov? Tus uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus⚓ qhau cai lov? 4Yog koj li menyuam ua txhaum rau Vajtswv nws thiaj rau txim rau lawv raws li lawv tej kev fav xeeb. 5Yog koj nrhiav Vajtswv thiab taij thov tus uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus, 6yog koj dawb huv thiab siab ncaj mas nws yuav sawv tsees pab koj, thiab yuav thim lub chaw uas yog koj teej koj tug rov rau koj. 7Txawm yog thaum chiv thawj koj me me xwb, los thaum kawg koj yuav ua loj kawg. 8Kuv thov kom koj nug txog yav thaum ub, thiab xav saib tej poj koob yawm txwv nrhiav tau yam twg, 9rau qhov peb nyuam qhuav yug nag hmo xwb mas tsis paub dabtsi li, vim peb lub caij lub nyoog saum lub ntiajteb yog tus duab xwb. 10Lawv yuav tsis qhuab qhia koj thiab tsis hais rau koj lov, thiab tsis hais tej uas lawv nkag siab rau koj lov? 11Tauj deg yuav tuaj rau hauv qhov uas tsis muaj pas iav tau lov? Pias iav yuav hlob zoo rau hauv qhov tsis muaj dej tau lov? 12Thaum txhawv lawm tsis tau muab txiav, los twb qhuav nkig nkuav ua ntej dua lwm yam ntoo. 13Txhua tus uas tsis nco Vajtswv lawd kuj zoo li ntawd ntag. Cov uas tsis hwm Vajtswv lawv lub chaw vam yuav puam tsuaj tag. 14Yam uas lawv tso siab rau kuj lov ntho lawm, thiab tej uas lawv cia siab rau yog sab kab laug tsov. 15Yog lawv pheeb tej sab kab laug tsov tej sab ntawd tu, lawv tuav tej sab ntawd tiamsis tej sab ntawd tsis ruaj. 16Lawv zoo li tsob ntoo uas muaj dej yug rau thaum tshav ntuj kub, thiab lawv tej ntsuag hlav mus puv nkaus lawv lub vaj. 17Lawv tej cag kuj nrhau mus tuav tej pob zeb, thiab ntsia mus rau hauv tej kem pob zeb. 18Yog tsob ntoo raug muab ua puam tsuaj tag ntawm nws lub chaw, lub chaw ntawd yuav tsis lees paub nws thiab hais tias, ‘Kuv tsis txeev pom dua koj.’ 19Saib maj, no yog lawv txojkev xyiv fab, thiab lwm tus yuav ua kaus tawm hauv av tuaj.
20“Vajtswv yeej yuav tsis tso tus neeg zoo tseg, lossis tuav tus neeg ua phem tes. 21Nws tseem yuav pub koj lub qhov ncauj luag puv nkaus, thiab ua rau koj daim tawv ncauj qw zoo siab. 22Cov uas ntxub koj yuav raug txaj muag, thiab cov neeg phem lub tsev ntaub yuav tsis muaj dua li lawm.”