Job-8

(New International Version)

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  • 1 Bildad Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
  • 2 “How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.
  • 3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
  • 4 When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
  • 5 But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,
  • 6 if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.
  • 7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
  • 8 “Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,
  • 9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
  • 10 Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
  • 11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
  • 12 While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
  • 13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
  • 14 What they trust in is fragile 8:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.; what they rely on is a spider’s web.
  • 15 They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.
  • 16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;
  • 17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.
  • 18 But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
  • 19 Surely its life withers away, and 8:19 Or Surely all the joy it has / is that from the soil other plants grow.
  • 20 “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
  • 21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
  • 22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”
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