Job - Chapter 8 - American King James Version
- Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
- How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
- Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
- If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
- If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
- If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
- For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:
- (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)
- Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
- Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb.
- So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite' hope shall perish:
- Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider' web.
- He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
- He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.
- His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.
- If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.
- Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
- Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
- Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.
- They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.