3 Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert  justice?
         
                                
                        4 If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them  away, By the hand of their transgression,
         
                                
                        5 If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest  supplication,
         
                                
                        6 If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for  thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
         
                                
                        7 And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is  very great.
         
                                
                        8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to  a search of their fathers,
         
                                
                        9 (For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow  [are] our days on earth.)