Job 8
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Bildad: Job Should Repent
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2“How long will you speak these things,
And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
3#Gen. 18:25; (Deut. 32:4; 2 Chr. 19:7; Job 34:10, 12; 36:23; 37:23); Rom. 3:5Does God subvert judgment?
Or does the Almighty pervert justice?
4If #Job 1:5, 18, 19your sons have sinned against Him,
He has cast them away for their transgression.
5#(Job 5:17–27; 11:13)If you would earnestly seek God
And make your supplication to the Almighty,
6If you were pure and upright,
Surely now He would awake for you,
And prosper your rightful dwelling place.
7Though your beginning was small,
Yet your latter end would #Job 42:12increase abundantly.
8“For#Deut. 4:32; 32:7; Job 15:18; 20:4 inquire, please, of the former age,
And consider the things discovered by their fathers;
9For #Gen. 47:9; (1 Chr. 29:15); Job 7:6; (Ps. 39:5; 102:11; 144:4)we were born yesterday, and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are a shadow.
10Will they not teach you and tell you,
And utter words from their heart?
11“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
Can the reeds flourish without water?
12#Ps. 129:6While it is yet green and not cut down,
It withers before any other plant.
13So are the paths of all who #Ps. 9:17forget God;
And the hope of the #Job 11:20; 18:14; 27:8; Ps. 112:10; (Prov. 10:28)hypocrite shall perish,
14Whose confidence shall be cut off,
And whose trust is a spider’s web.
15#Job 8:22; 27:18; Ps. 49:11He leans on his house, but it does not stand.
He holds it fast, but it does not endure.
16He grows green in the sun,
And his branches spread out in his garden.
17His roots wrap around the rock heap,
And look for a place in the stones.
18#Job 7:10If he is destroyed from his place,
Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
19“Behold, this is the joy of His way,
And #Ps. 113:7out of the earth others will grow.
20Behold, #Job 4:7God will not cast away the blameless,
Nor will He uphold the evildoers.
21He will yet fill your mouth with laughing,
And your lips with rejoicing.
22Those who hate you will be #Ps. 35:26; 109:29clothed with shame,
And the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing.”
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