Job 8
8
Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2“How long will you say these things,
and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
3Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty#8.3 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai pervert the right?
4If your children sinned against him,
he delivered them into the power of their transgression.
5If you will seek God
and make supplication to the Almighty,#8.5 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
6if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore to you your rightful place.
7Though your beginning was small,
your latter days will be very great.
8“For inquire now of bygone generations,
and consider what their ancestors have found;
9for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing,
for our days on earth are but a shadow.
10Will 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?
12While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither before any other plant.
13Such are the paths of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless shall perish.
14Their confidence is gossamer,
a spider's house their trust.
15If one leans against its house, it will not stand;
if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.
16The wicked thrive#8.16 Heb He thrives before the sun,
and their shoots spread over the garden.
17Their roots twine around the stoneheap;
they live among the rocks.#8.17 Gk Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain
18If they are destroyed from their place,
then it will deny them, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
19See, these are their happy ways,#8.19 Meaning of Heb uncertain
and out of the earth still others will spring.
20“See, God will not reject a blameless person,
nor take the hand of evildoers.
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 be no more.”
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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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