Job - Chapter 8 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
  • 2. How long wilt thou speak these things? And {cf15i how long} shall the words of thy mouth be {cf15i like} a mighty wind?
  • 3. Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
  • 4. If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
  • 5. If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
  • 6. If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
  • 7. And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
  • 8. For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:
  • 9. (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);
  • 10. Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
  • 11. Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?
  • 12. Whilst it is yet in its greenness, {cf15i and} not cut down, It withereth before any {cf15i other} herb.
  • 13. So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
  • 14. Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web.
  • 15. He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
  • 16. He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
  • 17. His roots are wrapped about the {cf15i stone}-heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.
  • 18. If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, {cf15i saying}, I have not seen thee.
  • 19. Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.
  • 20. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
  • 21. He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting.
  • 22. They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
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