Job Chapter 8 (NKJV)
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1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said | |
2. How long will you speak these things, And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? | |
3. Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice? | |
4. If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression. | |
5. If you would earnestly seek God And make your supplication to the Almighty, | |
6. If you were pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you, And prosper your rightful dwelling place. | |
7. Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly. | |
8. For inquire, please, of the former age, And consider the things discovered by their fathers; | |
9. For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow. | |
10. Will they not teach you and tell you, And utter words from their heart? | |
11. Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the reeds flourish without water? | |
12. While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers before any other plant. | |
13. So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish, | |
14. Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider's web. | |
15. He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He holds it fast, but it does not endure. | |
16. He grows green in the sun, And his branches spread out in his garden. | |
17. His roots wrap around the rock heap, And look for a place in the stones. | |
18. If he is destroyed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.' | |
19. Behold, this is the joy of His way, And out of the earth others will grow. | |
20. Behold, God will not cast away the blameless, Nor will He uphold the evildoers. | |
21. He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, And your lips with rejoicing. | |
22. Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, And the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing." |
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