AB - Job - 8

8:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

8:2  How long will you speak these things, how long shall the breath of your mouth be abundant in words?

8:3  Will the Lord be unjust when He judges; or will He that has made all things pervert justice?

8:4  If your sons have sinned before Him, He has cast them away because of their transgression.

8:5  But you be early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.

8:6  If you are pure and true, He will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.

8:7  Though then your beginning should be small, yet your end should be unspeakably great.

8:8  For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers:

8:9  (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)

8:10  shall not these teach you, and report to you, and bring out words from their heart?

8:11  Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture?

8:12  When it is yet on the root, and though it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?

8:13  Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

8:14  For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.

8:15  If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

8:16  For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung heap.

8:17  He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.

8:18  If God should destroy him, his place shall deny him. Have you not seen such things,

8:19  that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? And out of the earth another shall grow.

8:20  For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but He will not receive any gift of the ungodly.

8:21  But He will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving.

8:22  But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.