Job 8
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- 1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
- 2"How long will you speak these things? And how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
- 3Does God pervert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice?
- 4If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their transgression,
- 5if you would seek God early and make your supplication to the Almighty,
- 6if you were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for you and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- 7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
- 8Please ask about the past generations and prepare yourself to search their fathers:
- 9(For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
- 10Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak words out of their heart?
- 11Can the rush grow without marshy ground? Can the reeds grow without water?
- 12While it is still green and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.
- 13So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish,
- 14whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
- 15He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not endure.
- 16He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.
- 17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and he sees the place of stones.
- 18If he destroys him from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'
- 19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
- 20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evildoers,
- 21until he fills your mouth with laughing and your lips with rejoicing.
- 22Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing."