Job - Chapter 8 - King James Version
- Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
- How long wilt thou speak thesethings? andhow long shallthe words of thy mouthbe likea strong wind?
- Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
- If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
- If thouwertpure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
- For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
- (For weare but ofyesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon eartharea shadow:)
- Shall not they teach thee,andtell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
- Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- Whilst itisyet in his greenness,andnot cut down, it withereth before anyotherherb.
- Soarethe paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
- Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trustshall bea spider’s web.
- He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
- Heisgreen before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
- His roots are wrapped about the heap,andseeth the place of stones.
- If he destroy him from his place, thenitshall deny him,saying, I have not seen thee.
- Behold, thisisthe joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
- Behold, God will not cast away a perfectman, neither will he help the evil doers:
- Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
- They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.