| 8 | Job | ||
| 1 | Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: | Bildad. Jb.8.1-22 | |
| 2 | "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? | ||
| 3 | Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? | ||
| 4 | If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression. | ||
| 5 | If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty, | ||
| 6 | if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and reward you with a rightful habitation. | ||
| 7 | And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great. | ||
| 8 | "For please inquire of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found; | ||
| 9 | for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow. | ||
| 10 | Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding? | ||
| 11 | "Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water? | ||
| 12 | While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant. | ||
| 13 | Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish. | ||
| 14 | His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web. | ||
| 15 | He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure. | ||
| 16 | He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden. | ||
| 17 | His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks. | ||
| 18 | If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.' | ||
| 19 | Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth others will spring. | ||
| 20 | "Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers. | ||
| 21 | He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting. | ||
| 22 | Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more." | ||
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