LEB - Job - 8

8:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

8:2  “⌞How long⌟ will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

8:3  Does God pervert justice, ⌞or⌟ Shaddai pervert righteousness?

8:4  If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the ⌞power⌟ of their transgression.

8:5  If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace.

8:6  If you are pure and upright, indeed, now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode.

8:7  Though your beginning was small, your end will be very great.

8:8  “Indeed, please inquire of former generations, and consider ⌞what their ancestors have found⌟,

8:9  for we are of yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth are a shadow.

8:10  Will they themselves not teach you and ⌞tell you⌟ and ⌞utter⌟ words from their heart?

8:11  Can papyrus grow tall where there is not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water?

8:12  While it is in its flower and is not plucked, yet it withers ⌞before⌟ all grass.

8:13  So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless will perish,

8:14  whose confidence is cut off and ⌞whose trust⌟ is a spider’s house.

8:15  He will lean himself against his house, but it will not stand; he will take hold of it, but it will not endure.

8:16  He is ⌞thriving⌟ ⌞before⌟ the sun, and his plant shoots spread over his garden.

8:17  His roots twine over a stone heap; he sees a house of stone.

8:18  If he destroys him from his place, then it deceives him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

8:19  Look, this is the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.

8:20  “Look, God will not reject the blameless, and he will not uphold the hand of evildoers.

8:21  Yet he will fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with a shout of joy.

8:22  Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked ⌞will be no more⌟.”