Job - Chapter 8 - A Conservative Version
- Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
- How long will thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
- Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
- If thy sons have sinned against him, and he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression,
- if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
- if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
- For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out
- (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).
- Shall they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
- Can the rush grow up without mire? Can a reed grow without water?
- While it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, it withers before any [other] herb.
- So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,
- whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.
- He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
- He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
- His roots are wrapped around the [stone] heap. He beholds the place of stones.
- If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
- Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.
- Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evil-doers.
- He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.
- Those who hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.