Job 8

And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 2 “Until when will you say these things, and the words of your mouth {be} a mighty wind? 3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? \* 4 If your children sinned against him, then he put them in the hand of their sins. 5 If you seek diligently for God, and to the Almighty you appeal, \* 6 if you {are} pure and upright, surely now he will rouse himself for you and restore the habitation of your righteousness. 7 Though your beginning was small, yet your end will increase greatly. \* 8 For inquire now of the former generations and consider the finding of their fathers. 9 For we {are} of yesterday and we do not know, for our days on earth {are} a shadow. 10 Will they not teach you? They will speak to you, and from their hearts they will bring forth words. \* 11 Does papyrus grow without a marsh? Does a reed grow without waters? 12 It {is} still in its greenness, it is not cut down, but it withers before any {other} plant. \* 13 Thus {are} the paths of all the ones forgetting God, and the hope of the godless will perish, 14 whose confidence snaps and whose trust {is} the house of a spider. 15 He leans himself against his house and it does not stand; he takes hold of it, but it does not arise. \* 16 It {is} lush to the face of the sun, and its shoots go out over its garden. 17 Its roots are wrapped around a heap; it looks for a house of rocks. 18 When one destroys it from its place, then it will deny him, ‘I did not see you.’ \* 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and from the dust other {plants} will sprout. 20 Behold, God will not reject the innocent, but he will not hold the hand of evildoers. \* 21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. 22 The ones hating you will wear shame, and the tent of the wicked will not exist.” \*