Job 8

¹Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ²How long wilt thou speak these things? and how longshall the words of thy mouth be likea mighty wind? ³Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? ⁴If thy children have sinned against him, and he have delivered them into the hand of their transgression: ⁵If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; ⁶If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. ⁷And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. ⁸For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out: ⁹(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) ¹⁰Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? ¹¹Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? ¹²Whilst it is yet in its greenness, andnot cut down, it withereth before any otherherb. ¹³So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the godless man shall perish: ¹⁴Whose confidence shall break in sunder, and whose trust is a spider’s web. ¹⁵He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure. ¹⁶He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden. ¹⁷His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones. ¹⁸If he be destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. ¹⁹Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others spring. ²⁰Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he uphold the evil-doers. ²¹He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting. ²²They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.