The Book of Job

chapter 8


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verse #1

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,


verse #2

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?


verse #3

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?


verse #4

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.


verse #5

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.


verse #6

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.


verse #7

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.


verse #8

“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.


verse #9

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)


verse #10

Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?


verse #11

“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?


verse #12

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.


verse #13

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,


verse #14

whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.


verse #15

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.


verse #16

He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.


verse #17

His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.


verse #18

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’


verse #19

Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.


verse #20

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.


verse #21

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.


verse #22

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

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