Job 8

¹And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:

²“Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?

³Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?

⁴If your sons have sinned before Him, And He sends them away, By the hand of their transgression,

⁵If you seek for God early, And make supplication to the Mighty,

⁶If you are pure and upright, Surely now He wakes for you, And has completed The habitation of your righteousness.

⁷And your beginning has been small, And your latter end is very great.

⁸For inquire, please, of a former generation, And prepare for a search of their fathers,

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

¹⁰Do they not show you—speak to you, And from their heart bring forth words?

¹¹Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water?

¹²While it is in its budding—uncropped, Even before any herb it withers.

¹³So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane perishes,

¹⁴Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

¹⁵He leans on his house—and it does not stand, He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.

¹⁶He is green before the sun, And over his garden his branch goes out.

¹⁷His roots are wrapped by a heap, He looks for a house of stones.

¹⁸If one destroys him from his place, Then it has feigned concerning him, I have not seen you!

¹⁹Behold, this is the joy of His way, And from the dust others spring up.

²⁰Behold, God does not reject the perfect, Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers.

²¹While He fills your mouth with laughter, And your lips with shouting,

²²Those hating you put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!”

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