| 8:1 |
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, |
| 8:2 |
"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? |
| 8:3 |
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? |
| 8:4 |
If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. |
| 8:5 |
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. |
| 8:6 |
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. |
| 8:7 |
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase. |
| 8:8 |
"Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers. |
| 8:9 |
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.) |
| 8:10 |
Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart? |
| 8:11 |
"Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? |
| 8:12 |
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. |
| 8:13 |
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish, |
| 8:14 |
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web. |
| 8:15 |
He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure. |
| 8:16 |
He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden. |
| 8:17 |
His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. |
| 8:18 |
If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.' |
| 8:19 |
Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring. |
| 8:20 |
"Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evil-doers. |
| 8:21 |
He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. |
| 8:22 |
Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more." |
