Job 8
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Bildad’s First Response to Job
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied to Job:
2“How long will you go on like this?
You sound like a blustering wind.
3Does God twist justice?
Does the Almighty twist what is right?
4Your children must have sinned against him,
so their punishment was well deserved.
5But if you pray to God
and seek the favor of the Almighty,
6and if you are pure and live with integrity,
he will surely rise up and restore your happy home.
7And though you started with little,
you will end with much.
8“Just ask the previous generation.
Pay attention to the experience of our ancestors.
9For we were born but yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow.
10But those who came before us will teach you.
They will teach you the wisdom of old.
11“Can papyrus reeds grow tall without a marsh?
Can marsh grass flourish without water?
12While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut,
they begin to wither more quickly than grass.
13The same happens to all who forget God.
The hopes of the godless evaporate.
14Their confidence hangs by a thread.
They are leaning on a spider’s web.
15They cling to their home for security, but it won’t last.
They try to hold it tight, but it will not endure.
16The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine,
its branches spreading across the garden.
17Its roots grow down through a pile of stones;
it takes hold on a bed of rocks.
18But when it is uprooted,
it’s as though it never existed!
19That’s the end of its life,
and others spring up from the earth to replace it.
20“But look, God will not reject a person of integrity,
nor will he lend a hand to the wicked.
21He will once again fill your mouth with laughter
and your lips with shouts of joy.
22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the home of the wicked will be destroyed.”
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Job 8
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Bildad: Job Should Repent
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2“How long will you speak these things,
And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
3#Gen. 18:25; (Deut. 32:4; 2 Chr. 19:7; Job 34:10, 12; 36:23; 37:23); Rom. 3:5Does God subvert judgment?
Or does the Almighty pervert justice?
4If #Job 1:5, 18, 19your sons have sinned against Him,
He has cast them away for their transgression.
5#(Job 5:17–27; 11:13)If you would earnestly seek God
And make your supplication to the Almighty,
6If you were pure and upright,
Surely now He would awake for you,
And prosper your rightful dwelling place.
7Though your beginning was small,
Yet your latter end would #Job 42:12increase abundantly.
8“For#Deut. 4:32; 32:7; Job 15:18; 20:4 inquire, please, of the former age,
And consider the things discovered by their fathers;
9For #Gen. 47:9; (1 Chr. 29:15); Job 7:6; (Ps. 39:5; 102:11; 144:4)we were born yesterday, and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are a shadow.
10Will they not teach you and tell you,
And utter words from their heart?
11“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
Can the reeds flourish without water?
12#Ps. 129:6While it is yet green and not cut down,
It withers before any other plant.
13So are the paths of all who #Ps. 9:17forget God;
And the hope of the #Job 11:20; 18:14; 27:8; Ps. 112:10; (Prov. 10:28)hypocrite shall perish,
14Whose confidence shall be cut off,
And whose trust is a spider’s web.
15#Job 8:22; 27:18; Ps. 49:11He leans on his house, but it does not stand.
He holds it fast, but it does not endure.
16He grows green in the sun,
And his branches spread out in his garden.
17His roots wrap around the rock heap,
And look for a place in the stones.
18#Job 7:10If he is destroyed from his place,
Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
19“Behold, this is the joy of His way,
And #Ps. 113:7out of the earth others will grow.
20Behold, #Job 4:7God will not cast away the blameless,
Nor will He uphold the evildoers.
21He will yet fill your mouth with laughing,
And your lips with rejoicing.
22Those who hate you will be #Ps. 35:26; 109:29clothed with shame,
And the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing.”
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