Iyov (Job) 8
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1Bildad the Shuchi spoke next:
2“How long will you go on talking like this?
What you are saying is raging wind!
3Does God distort judgment?
Does Shaddai pervert justice?
4If your children sinned against him,
he left them to be victims of their own offense.
5“If you will earnestly seek God
and plead for Shaddai’s favor,
6if you are pure and upright;
then he will rouse himself for you
and fulfill your needs.
7Then, although your beginnings were small,
your future will be very great indeed.
8“Ask the older generation,
and consider what their ancestors found out;
9for we who were born yesterday know nothing,
our days on earth are but a shadow.
10They will teach you, they will tell you,
they will say what is in their hearts:
11‘Can papyrus grow except in a marsh?
Can swamp grass flourish without water?
12While still green, before being cut down,
it dries up faster than any other plant.
13Such are the paths of all who forget God;
the hope of a hypocrite will perish —
14his confidence is mere gossamer,
his trust a spider’s web.
15He can lean on his house, but it won’t stand;
he can hold on to it, but it won’t last;
16[for its destruction will come] like the lush growth
of a plant in the sun,
its shoots may spread out all over its garden,
17but meanwhile its roots cause the stone house
to collapse, as it seizes hold of the rocks;
18someone who tears it away from its place
denies he has ever seen it.
19Yes, this is the “joy” of the way [of the godless],
and out of the dust will spring up others [like him].’
20“Look, God will not reject a blameless man;
nor will he uphold wrongdoers.
21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
and your lips with shouts of joy.
22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the tent of the wicked will cease to exist.”
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Bildad Speaks to Job
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2“How long will you say such things?
Your words are no more than wind.
3God does not twist justice;
the Almighty does not make wrong what is right.
4Your children sinned against God,
and he punished them for their sins.
5But you should ask God for help
and pray to the Almighty for mercy.
6If you are good and honest,
he will stand up for you
and bring you back where you belong.
7Where you began will seem unimportant,
because your future will be so successful.
8“Ask old people;
find out what their ancestors learned,
9because we were only born yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are only a shadow.
10Those people will teach you and tell you
and speak about what they know.
11Papyrus plants cannot grow where there is no swamp,
and reeds cannot grow tall without water.
12While they are still growing and not yet cut,
they will dry up quicker than grass.
13That is what will happen to those who forget God;
the hope of the wicked will be gone.
14What they hope in is easily broken;
what they trust is like a spider’s web.
15They lean on the spider’s web, but it breaks.
They grab it, but it does not hold up.
16They are like well-watered plants in the sunshine
that spread their roots all through the garden.
17They wrap their roots around a pile of rocks
and look for a place among the stones.
18But if a plant is torn from its place,
then that place rejects it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
19Now joy has gone away;
other plants grow up from the same dirt.
20“Surely God does not reject the innocent
or give strength to those who do evil.
21God will yet fill your mouth with laughter
and your lips with shouts of joy.
22Your enemies will be covered with shame,
and the tents of the wicked will be gone.”
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