| 8 | Job | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: | Bildad. Jb.8.1-22 | ||
| "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? | |||
| Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? | |||
| If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression. | |||
| If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty, | |||
| if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and reward you with a rightful habitation. | |||
| And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great. | |||
| "For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found; | |||
| for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow. | |||
| Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding? | |||
| "Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water? | |||
| While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant. | |||
| Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish. | |||
| His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web. | |||
| He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure. | |||
| He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden. | |||
| His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks. | |||
| If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.' | |||
| Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth others will spring. | |||
| "Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers. | |||
| He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting. | |||
| Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more." | |||
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