Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
书亚人比勒达回答说，

How long will you speak these things? / And how long will the words of your mouth be like a mighty wind?
这些话你要说到几时？口中的言语如狂风要到几时？

Does God pervert justice? / Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
神岂能屈枉公理？全能者岂能屈枉公义？

If your children have sinned against Him, / He has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
你的儿女若得罪祂，祂就任凭他们受自己过犯的掌握。

If you seek earnestly after God / And make supplication unto the Almighty,
你若殷勤地寻求神，向全能者恳求；

If you are pure and upright, / Then surely He will rouse Himself for you / And restore well-being to your righteous habitation.
你若纯洁正直，祂必定为你兴起，使你公义的居所恢复兴旺。

And though your beginning was small, / Your end will be very great.
你起初虽然微小，终久必甚昌大。

For inquire now of the former generation, / And attend to what their fathers have sought out.
请你查问前代，留意他们列祖所查究的。

For we are of yesterday and know nothing, / Because our days upon the earth are a shadow.
（我们不过从昨日才有，一无所知，因为我们在地上的日子好像影儿。）

Will they not teach you and talk to you / And utter forth words from their heart?
他们岂不指教你，告诉你，从心里发出言语呢？

Can papyrus shoot up without marsh? / Can reeds grow without water?
蒲草没有泥沼，岂能生长？芦荻没有水，岂能发旺？

While it is still in its greenness and not cut down, / It withers before all other grasses.
尚青的时候，还没有割下，就比百草先枯槁。

So are the paths of all who forget God; / And the hope of the profane perishes,
凡忘记神的人，行径也是这样；不虔敬人的指望要灭没，

Whose confidence is cut off, / And whose trust is a spider's web.
他所仰赖的必折断，他所倚靠的是蜘蛛网。

He leans upon his house, but it will not stand; / He holds fast to it, but it will not endure.
他倚靠自己的房屋，房屋却站立不住；他抓住房屋，房屋却不能留存。

He is full of sap before the sun, / And his shoots go forth over his garden.
他在日光之下满了汁浆，他的枝苗爬满了园子。

His roots are entwined around a stone heap; / He looks upon a place of stones.
他的根盘绕石堆，扎入石地。

If one destroys him from his place, / Then it denies him, saying, I have not seen you.
若有人从本地将他拔除，那地就不认他，说，我没有见过你。

Indeed, that is the joy of his way; / And others spring forth out of the dust.
看哪，这就是他道路中的喜乐；以后必另有人从尘土中发生。

Indeed, God will not reject a perfect man, / Nor will He support evildoers.
看哪，神必不丢弃完全人，也不扶助作恶的人。

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter / And your lips with shouting.
祂还要以喜笑充满你的口，以欢呼充满你的嘴。

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, / And the tent of the wicked will be no more.
恨恶你的要披戴惭愧，恶人的帐棚必归于无有。