Job 8
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 1
2How long wilt thou speak these things? 1 And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 1
3Doth God pervert judgment? 1 Or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 1
4If thy children have sinned against him, 1 And he have cast them away for their transgression; 1
5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, 1 And make thy supplication to the Almighty; 1
6If thou wert pure and upright; 1 Surely now he would awake for thee, 1 And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. 1
7Though thy beginning was small, 1 Yet thy latter end should greatly increase. 1
8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, 1 And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 1
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, 1 Because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 1
10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, 1 And utter words out of their heart? 1
11Can the rush grow up without mire? 1 Can the flag grow without water? 1
12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, 1 It withereth before any other herb. 1
13So are the paths of all that forget God; 1 And the hypocrite’s hope shall perish: 1
14Whose hope shall be cut off, 1 And whose trust shall be a spider’s web. 1
15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: 1 He shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. 1
16He is green before the sun, 1 And his branch shooteth forth in his garden, 1
17His roots are wrapped about the heap, 1 And seeth the place of stones. 1
18If he destroy him from his place, 1 Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. 1
19Behold, this is the joy of his way, 1 And out of the earth shall others grow. 1
20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, 1 Neither will he help the evil doers: 1
21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, 1 And thy lips with rejoicing. 1
22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; 1 And the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.