Job 8
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Job 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?
3 #
Gen 18.25; Deut 32.4; 2 Chr 19.7; Dan 9.14; Rom 3.5 Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty#8.3 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai pervert the right?
4 #
Job 1.5, 18, 19 If your children sinned against him,
he delivered them into the power of their transgression.
5 #
Job 5.8; 9.15; 11.13 If you will seek God
and make supplication to the Almighty,#8.5 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
6 #
Ps 7.6
if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore to you your rightful place.
7 #
Job 42.12
Though your beginning was small,
your latter days will be very great.
8 #
Deut 4.32; 32.7; Job 15.18 “For inquire now of bygone generations
and consider what their ancestors have found,
9 #
Gen 47.9; 1 Chr 29.15; Job 7.6 for 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?
12 #
Ps 129.6; Jer 17.6 While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither before any other plant.
13 #
Job 11.20; Ps 9.17; Prov 10.28 Such 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.
15 #
Job 27.18
If one leans against its house, it will not stand;
if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.
16 #
Ps 37.35; 80.11 The 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
18 #
Job 7.10; Ps 37.36 If 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 #
Job 4.7; 21.30 “See, God will not reject the blameless,
nor take the hand of evildoers.
21 #
Ps 126.2; 132.16 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
and your lips with shouts of joy.
22 #
v 15
; Ps 35.26; 109.29Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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Job 8
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Job 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?
3 #
Gen 18.25; Deut 32.4; 2 Chr 19.7; Dan 9.14; Rom 3.5 Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty#8.3 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai pervert the right?
4 #
Job 1.5, 18, 19 If your children sinned against him,
he delivered them into the power of their transgression.
5 #
Job 5.8; 9.15; 11.13 If you will seek God
and make supplication to the Almighty,#8.5 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
6 #
Ps 7.6
if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore to you your rightful place.
7 #
Job 42.12
Though your beginning was small,
your latter days will be very great.
8 #
Deut 4.32; 32.7; Job 15.18 “For inquire now of bygone generations
and consider what their ancestors have found,
9 #
Gen 47.9; 1 Chr 29.15; Job 7.6 for 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?
12 #
Ps 129.6; Jer 17.6 While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither before any other plant.
13 #
Job 11.20; Ps 9.17; Prov 10.28 Such 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.
15 #
Job 27.18
If one leans against its house, it will not stand;
if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.
16 #
Ps 37.35; 80.11 The 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
18 #
Job 7.10; Ps 37.36 If 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 #
Job 4.7; 21.30 “See, God will not reject the blameless,
nor take the hand of evildoers.
21 #
Ps 126.2; 132.16 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
and your lips with shouts of joy.
22 #
v 15
; Ps 35.26; 109.29Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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