Job 8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Job 8:2 How long will you speak these things? / And how long will the words of your mouth be like a mighty wind?
Job 8:3 Does God pervert justice? / Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 8:4 If your children have sinned against Him, / He has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
Job 8:5 If you seek earnestly after God / And make supplication unto the Almighty,
Job 8:6 If you are pure and upright, / Then surely He will rouse Himself for you / And restore well-being to your righteous habitation.
Job 8:7 And though your beginning was small, / Your end will be very great.
Job 8:8 For inquire now of the former generation, / And attend to what their fathers have sought out.
Job 8:9 For we are of yesterday and know nothing, / Because our days upon the earth are a shadow.
Job 8:10 Will they not teach you and talk to you / And utter forth words from their heart?
Job 8:11 Can papyrus shoot up without marsh? / Can reeds grow without water?
Job 8:12 While it is still in its greenness and not cut down, / It withers before all other grasses.
Job 8:13 So are the paths of all who forget God; / And the hope of the profane perishes,
Job 8:14 Whose confidence is cut off, / And whose trust is a spider’s web.
Job 8:15 He leans upon his house, but it will not stand; / He holds fast to it, but it will not endure.
Job 8:16 He is full of sap before the sun, / And his shoots go forth over his garden.
Job 8:17 His roots are entwined around a stone heap; / He looks upon a place of stones.
Job 8:18 If one destroys him from his place, / Then it denies him, saying, I have not seen you.
Job 8:19 Indeed, that is the joy of his way; / And others spring forth out of the dust.
Job 8:20 Indeed, God will not reject a perfect man, / Nor will He support evildoers.
Job 8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter / And your lips with shouting.
Job 8:22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, / And the tent of the wicked will be no more.