Job 8

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(Job 8:1) Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
(Job 8:2) "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be 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 disobedience.
(Job 8:5) If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
(Job 8:6) If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
(Job 8:7) Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
(Job 8:8) "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning 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 they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
(Job 8:11) "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
(Job 8:12) While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
(Job 8:13) So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
(Job 8:14) Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
(Job 8:15) He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
(Job 8:16) He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.
(Job 8:17) His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
(Job 8:18) If he is destroyed 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: out of the earth, others shall spring.
(Job 8:20) "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
(Job 8:21) He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
(Job 8:22) Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."