LITV - Job - 8

8:1  And Bildad the Shuhite answered, saying:

8:2  Until when will you speak these things, since the words of your mouth are like a mighty wind?

8:3  Or does God pervert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

8:4  If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has sent them away in the hand of their transgression,

8:5  if you would seek earnestly to God, and make your prayer to the Almighty,

8:6  if you were pure and upright, surely now He would rise for you, and make whole the abode of your righteousness.

8:7  And your beginning was small, yet your end would greatly increase.

8:8  For, I beg you, ask of the former generation, and prepare to the search of their fathers;

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

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

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

8:12  While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before every plant.

8:13  So are the paths of all those forgetting God; and the hope of the ungodly shall perish;

8:14  whose hope is cut off, and his trust as a spider's house.

8:15  He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not endure.

8:16  He is moist before the sun, and his branches shoot forth on his garden.

8:17  His roots are wrapped around a heap; he sees a house of stones.

8:18  If one destroys him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying I have not seen you!

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

8:20  Behold, God will not cast away the innocent, and He will not help the evildoers,

8:21  until He fills your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.

8:22  Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall not be .