Job 8:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
Job 8:2
How long will thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?
Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 8:4
If thy sons have sinned against him, and he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression,
Job 8:5
if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
Job 8:6
if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Job 8:7
And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
Job 8:8
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out
Job 8:9
(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).
Job 8:10
Shall they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Job 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? Can a reed grow without water?
Job 8:12
While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.
Job 8:13
So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,
Job 8:14
whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.
Job 8:15
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
Job 8:16
He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
Job 8:17
His roots are wrapped around the stone heap. He beholds the place of stones.
Job 8:18
If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Job 8:19
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.
Job 8:20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evildoers.
Job 8:21
He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.
Job 8:22
Those who hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.