ACV - Job - 8

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

8:2  How long will thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?

8:3  Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

8:4  If thy sons have sinned against him, and he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression,

8:5  if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

8:6  if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

8:7  And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

8:8  For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out

8:9  (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

8:10  Shall they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

8:11  Can the rush grow up without mire? Can a reed grow without water?

8:12  While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

8:13  So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,

8:14  whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.

8:15  He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

8:16  He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.

8:17  His roots are wrapped around the stone heap. He beholds the place of stones.

8:18  If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

8:19  Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.

8:20  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evildoers.

8:21  He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.

8:22  Those who hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.