Job 8:1
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Job 8:2
How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
Job 8:3
Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
Job 8:4
If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Job 8:5
If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
Job 8:6
If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
Job 8:7
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
Job 8:8
For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)
Job 8:10
Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
Job 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
Job 8:12
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb.
Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Job 8:14
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
Job 8:15
He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Job 8:16
He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.
Job 8:17
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.
Job 8:18
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.
Job 8:19
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Job 8:20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
Job 8:21
Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.
Job 8:22
They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.