Job - Chapter 8 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Are you finally through with your windy speech?
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 8:1)}
  • 3. God never twists justice; he never fails to do what is right.
  • 4. Your children must have sinned against God, and so he punished them as they deserved.
  • 5. But turn now and plead with Almighty God;
  • 6. if you are so honest and pure, then God will come and help you and restore your household as your reward.
  • 7. All the wealth you lost will be nothing compared with what God will give you then.
  • 8. Look for a moment at ancient wisdom; consider the truths our ancestors learned.
  • 9. Our life is short, we know nothing at all; we pass like shadows across the earth.
  • 10. But let the ancient wise people teach you; listen to what they had to say:
  • 11. "Reeds can't grow where there is no water; they are never found outside a swamp.
  • 12. If the water dries up, they are the first to wither, while still too small to be cut and used.
  • 13. Godless people are like those reeds; their hope is gone, once God is forgotten.
  • 14. They trust a thread---a spider's web.
  • 15. If they lean on a web, will it hold them up? If they grab for a thread, will it help them stand?"
  • 16. Evil people sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden.
  • 17. Their roots wrap around the stones and hold fast to every rock.
  • 18. But then pull them up--- no one will ever know they were there.
  • 19. Yes, that's all the joy evil people have; others now come and take their places.
  • 20. But God will never abandon the faithful or ever give help to evil people.
  • 21. He will let you laugh and shout again,
  • 22. but he will bring disgrace on those who hate you, and the homes of the wicked will vanish.
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