NHEBME - Job - 8

8:1  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

8:2  "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

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

8:4  If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

8:5  If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

8:6  If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

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

8:8  "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

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

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

8:11  "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

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

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

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

8:15  He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

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

8:17  His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

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

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

8:20  "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

8:21  He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

8:22  Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."