1. Then Bildad from Shuah answered:
2. “How long will you talk like that? Your words are nothing but hot air!
3. God is always fair. God All-Powerful does what is right.
4. If your children sinned against God, he punished them. They paid for their sins.
5. But now, look to God and pray to the All-Powerful.
6. If you are pure and good, he will quickly come to help you. He will give your family back to you.
7. Then you will have a lot more than you had in the beginning!
8. “Ask those who are now old. Find out what their ancestors learned.
9. It seems as though we were born yesterday. We are too young to know anything. Our days on earth are very short, like a shadow.
10. Maybe the old people can tell you something. Maybe they will teach you what they learned.