Job 8
8
Bildad
1-2Are you finally through with your windy speech?
3God never twists justice;
he never fails to do what is right.
4Your children must have sinned against God,
and so he punished them as they deserved.
5But turn now and plead with Almighty God;
6if you are so honest and pure,
then God will come and help you
and restore your household as your reward.
7All the wealth you lost will be nothing
compared with what God will give you then.
8Look for a moment at ancient wisdom;
consider the truths our ancestors learnt.
9Our life is short, we know nothing at all;
we pass like shadows across the earth.
10But let the wise ancestors teach you;
listen to what they had to say:
11“Reeds can't grow where there is no water;
they are never found outside a swamp.
12If the water dries up, they are the first to wither,
while still too small to be cut and used.
13Godless men are like those reeds;
their hope is gone, once God is forgotten.
14They trust a thread — a spider's web.
15If they lean on a web, will it hold them up?
If they grab for a thread, will it help them stand?”
16The wicked sprout like weeds in the sun,
like weeds that spread all through the garden.
17Their roots wrap round the stones
and hold fast to#8.17 Probable text hold fast to; Hebrew see. every rock.
18But then pull them up —
no one will ever know they were there.
19Yes, that's all the joy wicked people have;
others now come and take their places.
20But God will never abandon the faithful
or ever give help to evil people.
21He will let you laugh and shout again,
22but he will bring disgrace on those who hate you,
and the homes of the wicked will vanish.
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Job 8
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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