Job 8

Bildad: God Restores the Righteous

1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

2“How long will you say these things? The words of your mouth are like a mighty wind.

3Does God pervert justice? Does Shaddai pervert justice?

4If your children sinned against Him, He handed them over to their rebellion.

5If you would seek God and plead with Shaddai,

6if you are pure and upright, even now He will awaken for you and restore your righteous abode.

7And though your beginning was small, your future would flourish.

8Now ask the previous generation; consider the findings of their fathers;

9for we were born yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

10Will they not teach you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their hearts?

11“Can papyrus grow tall without a marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

12When still in bloom and uncut, it withers more quickly than other grass.

13Such are the ways of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes—

14whose confidence is snapped off, his trust is a spider’s web.

15He leans against his house but it does not stand, He holds fast to it, but it does not hold up.

16He is a well-watered plant in the sun, spreading his shoots over his garden;

17he entwines his roots around a heap of stones, and looks for a place between the rocks.

18If he is uprooted from his place, it denies him saying, ‘I never saw you.’

19Such is his joyous course, and from the earth others spring up.

20Surely God does not spurn the blameless or strengthen 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. The tent of the wicked will be no more!”

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Job 8

Bildad Affirms God's Justice

1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2How long wilt thou speak these things?

And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

3Doth God pervert judgment?

Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

4If thy children have sinned against him,

and he have cast them away for their transgression;

5if thou wouldest seek unto God betimes,

and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

6if thou wert pure and upright;

surely now he would awake for thee,

and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

7Though thy beginning was small,

yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age,

and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

9(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,

because our days upon earth are a shadow.)

10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee,

and utter words out of their heart?

11Can the rush grow up without mire?

Can the flag grow without water?

12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down,

it withereth before any other herb.

13So are the paths of all that forget God;

and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

14whose hope shall be cut off,

and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand:

he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

16He is green before the sun,

and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

17His roots are wrapped about the heap,

and seeth the place of stones.

18If he destroy him from his place,

then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

19Behold, this is the joy of his way,

and out of the earth shall others grow.

20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man,

neither will he help the evildoers:

21till he fill thy mouth with laughing,

and thy lips with rejoicing.

22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame;

and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

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