【Job】Chapter 8 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

8:1 Bildad the Shuhite spoke out and said:

8:2 How long will you utter such things? The words from your mouth are like a mighty wind!

8:3 Does God pervert judgment, and does the Almighty distort justice?

8:4 If your children have sinned against him and he has left them in the grip of their guilt,

8:5 Still, if you yourself have recourse to God and make supplication to the Almighty,

8:6 Should you be blameless and upright, surely now he will awake for you and restore your rightful domain;

8:7 Your former state will be of little moment, for in time to come you will flourish indeed.

8:8 If you inquire of the former generations, and give heed to the experience of the fathers

8:9 (As we are but of yesterday and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are but a shadow),

8:10 Will they not teach you and tell you and utter their words of understanding?

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

8:12 While it is yet green and uncut, it withers quicker than any grass.

8:13 So is the end of everyone who forgets God, and so shall the hope of the godless man perish.

8:14 His confidence is but a gossamer thread and his trust is a spider’s web.

8:15 He shall rely upon his family, but it shall not last; he shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

8:16 He is full of sap before sunrise, and beyond his garden his shoots go forth;

8:17 About a heap of stones are his roots entwined; among the rocks he takes hold.

8:18 Yet if one tears him from his place, it will disown him: "I have never seen you!"

8:19 There he lies rotting beside the road, and out of the soil another sprouts.

8:20 Behold, God will not cast away the upright; neither will he take the hand of the wicked.

8:21 Once more will he fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.

8:22 They that hate you shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

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