Job 8
8
Bildad's first speech
How long will you talk?
1Bildad from Shuah#8.1 Shuah: See the note at 2.11. said:
2How long will you talk
and keep saying nothing?
3Does God All-Powerful
stand in the way of justice?
4He made your children pay
for their sins.
5So why don't you turn to him
6and start living right?
Then he will decide
to rescue and restore you
to your place of honour.
7Your future will be brighter
by far than your past.
Our ancestors were wise
8Our ancestors were wise,
so learn from them.
9Our own time has been short,
like a fading shadow,
and we know very little.
10But they will instruct you
with great understanding.
11Papyrus reeds grow healthy
only in a swamp,
12and if the water dries up,
they die sooner than grass.
13Such is the hopeless future
of all who turn from God
14and trust in something as frail
as a spider's web—
15they take hold and fall
because it's so flimsy.
16Sinful people are like plants
with spreading roots and plenty
of sun and water.
17They wrap their roots tightly
around rocks.#8.17 rocks: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 17.
18But once they are pulled up,
they have no more place;
19their life slips away,#8.19 their…away: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
and other plants grow there.
20We know God doesn't reject
an innocent person
or help a sinner.
21And so, he will make you happy
and give you something
to smile about.
22But your evil enemies
will be put to shame
and disappear for ever.
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© British and Foreign Bible Society 2012
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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