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Job 8

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1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
2 “How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.
3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4 If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression.
4 When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
5 If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,
5 But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,
6 if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore to you your rightful place.
6 if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.
7 Though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
8 "For inquire now of bygone generations, and consider what their ancestors have found;
8 “Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,
9 for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing, for our days on earth are but a shadow.
9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
10 Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?
10 Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
11 "Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
12 While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
12 While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
13 Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.
13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
14 Their confidence is gossamer, a spider's house their trust.
14 What they trust in is fragile ; what they rely on is a spider’s web.
15 If one leans against its house, it will not stand; if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.
15 They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.
16 The wicked thrive before the sun, and their shoots spread over the garden.
16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;
17 Their roots twine around the stoneheap; they live among the rocks.
17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.
18 If they are destroyed from their place, then it will deny them, saying, "I have never seen you.'
18 But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
19 See, these are their happy ways, and out of the earth still others will spring.
19 Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow.
20 "See, God will not reject a blameless person, nor take the hand of evildoers.
20 “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouts of joy.
21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”
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