Job Chapter 8 Back Next{8:1} Then
Bildad the Shuhite answered,
{8:2} "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
{8:3} Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
{8:4} If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
{8:5} If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
{8:6} If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the
habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
{8:7} Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
{8:8} "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their
fathers.
{8:9} (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on
earth are a shadow.)
{8:10} Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their
heart?
{8:11} "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
{8:12} While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
{8:13} So are the paths of all who forget God. The
hope of the godless man shall perish,
{8:14} Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
{8:15} He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
{8:16} He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.
{8:17} His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
{8:18} If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'
{8:19} Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
{8:20} "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
{8:21} He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
{8:22} Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
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