Job - Chapter 8 | English Standard Version

  • 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
  • 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 hand of their transgression.
  • 5. If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,
  • 6. if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.
  • 7. And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
  • 8. "For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.
  • 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 shall perish.
  • 14. His confidence is severed, 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 is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.
  • 17. His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones.
  • 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 soil 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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