Job 8
New International Version - Job 8 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142 8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: 8:2 'How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind. 8:3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right? 8:4 When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin. 8:5 But if you will look to God and plead with the Almighty, 8:6 if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your rightful place. 8:7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be. 8:8 'Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned, 8:9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow. 8:10 Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding? 8:11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water? 8:12 While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass. 8:13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless. 8:14 What he trusts in is fragile ; what he relies on is a spider's web. 8:15 He leans on his web, but it gives way; he clings to it, but it does not hold. 8:16 He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden; 8:17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones. 8:18 But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, 'I never saw you.' 8:19 Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow. 8:20 'Surely God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers. 8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. 8:22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.'