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Job 8

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

²"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

³Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

⁴If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;

⁵If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to the Almighty.

⁶If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

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

⁸"Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers.

⁹(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)

¹⁰Shall they not teach you, tell you, And utter words out of their heart?

¹¹"Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

¹²While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.

¹³So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

¹⁴Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider`s web.

¹⁵He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

¹⁶He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.

¹⁷His roots are wrapped around the rock pile, He sees the place of stones.

¹⁸If he is destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, `I have not seen you.`

¹⁹Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.

²⁰"Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

²¹He will still fill your mouth with laughter, Your lips with shouting.

²²Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."

Job 8 (WEB)

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Job

Chapter 8

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