Job 8
8
Bildad Speaks
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2How long will you go on saying these things?
Your words#Jb 11:2; Pr 10:19; Ec 5:3 are a blast of wind.#Jb 6:26; 15:2; 16:3
3Does God pervert justice?#2Ch 19:6; Jb 34:12; Ps 9:16
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?#Gn 18:25; Jb 34:17; Rm 3:5
4Since your children sinned against him,
he gave them over to their rebellion.
5But if you earnestly seek#Ps 63:1; 78:34; Is 26:9 God
and ask the Almighty for mercy,#Jb 9:15; 33:24; Ps 30:8
6if you are pure and upright,
then he will move even now on your behalf
and restore the home where your righteousness dwells.#Jb 22:23; 42:10; Pr 3:33
7Then, even if your beginnings were modest,
your final days will be full of prosperity.#Jb 36:11; 42:10,12; Jms 5:11
8For ask the previous generation,
and pay attention to what their ancestors discovered,#Dt 4:32; 32:7; Jb 15:18
9since we were born only yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are but a shadow.#Ps 102:11; 144:4; Ec 6:12
10Will they not teach you and tell you
and speak from their understanding?
11Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Do reeds flourish without water?
12While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.
13Such is the destiny#8:13 Lit Such are the ways of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless#Jb 13:16; 15:34; 27:8 will perish.
14His source of confidence is fragile;#8:14 Or cut off; Hb obscure
what he trusts in is a spider’s web.#Jb 27:18; Is 59:5; Mt 7:26–27
15He leans on his web, but it doesn’t stand firm.
He grabs it, but it does not hold up.
16He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine;
his shoots spread out over his garden.
17His roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks.
He looks for a home among the stones.
18If he is uprooted#8:18 Or destroyed from his place,
it will deny knowing him, saying, “I never saw you.”#Jb 7:10; 20:7; Ps 37:36
19Surely this is the joy of his way of life;
yet others will sprout from the dust.
20Look, God does not reject a person of integrity,
and he will not support#8:20 Lit grasp the hand of evildoers.#Gn 18:25; Jb 36:6; 2Pt 2:9
21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
and your lips with a shout of joy.#Jb 33:26; Ps 27:6; 47:5
22Your enemies will be clothed with shame;#Ps 35:26; 109:29; 132:18
the tent#Jb 18:6,14; Ps 52:5; Pr 14:11 of the wicked will no longer exist.
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Job 8
8
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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