Job

Chapter 8

New King James Version

1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

2"How long will you speak these [things,] And the words of your mouth [be like] a strong wind?

3Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice?

4If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression.

5If you would earnestly seek God And make your supplication to the Almighty,

6If you [were] pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you, And prosper your rightful dwelling place.

7Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.

8"For inquire, please, of the former age, And consider the things discovered by their fathers;

9For we [were born] yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth [are] a shadow.

10Will they not teach you and tell you, And utter words from their heart?

11" Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the reeds flourish without water?

12While it [is] yet green [and] not cut down, It withers before any [other] plant.

13So [are] the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish,

14Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust [is] a spider's web.

15He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He holds it fast, but it does not endure.

16He grows green in the sun, And his branches spread out in his garden.

17His roots wrap around the rock heap, [And] look for a place in the stones.

18If he is destroyed from his place, Then [it] will deny him, [saying,] 'I have not seen you.'

19" Behold, this is the joy of His way, And out of the earth others will grow.

20Behold, God will not cast away the blameless, Nor will He uphold the evildoers.

21He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, And your lips with rejoicing.

22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, And the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing."

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