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Job 8

Good News Translation GNT

1 Are you finally through with your windy speech?

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3 God never twists justice; he never fails to do what is right.

4 Your children must have sinned against God, and so he punished them as they deserved.

5 But turn now and plead with Almighty God;

6 if you are so honest and pure, then God will come and help you and restore your household as your reward.

7 All the wealth you lost will be nothing compared with what God will give you then.

8 Look for a moment at ancient wisdom; consider the truths our ancestors learned.

9 Our life is short, we know nothing at all; we pass like shadows across the earth.

10 But let the ancient wise people teach you; listen to what they had to say:

11 "Reeds can't grow where there is no water; they are never found outside a swamp.

12 If the water dries up, they are the first to wither, while still too small to be cut and used.

13 Godless people are like those reeds; their hope is gone, once God is forgotten.

14 They trust a thread - a spider's web.

15 If they lean on a web, will it hold them up? If they grab for a thread, will it help them stand?"

16 Evil people sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden.

17 Their roots wrap around the stones and hold fast to every rock.

18 But then pull them up - no one will ever know they were there.

19 Yes, that's all the joy evil people have; others now come and take their places.

20 But God will never abandon the faithful or ever give help to evil people.

21 He will let you laugh and shout again,

22 but he will bring disgrace on those who hate you, and the homes of the wicked will vanish.

World English Bible WEB

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;

5 If you want to seek God diligently, Make your supplication to the Almighty.

6 If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

7 Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.

8 "Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers.

9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)

10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, And utter words out of their heart?

11 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.

13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

16 He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.

17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile, He sees the place of stones.

18 If he is destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.

20 "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, Your lips with shouting.

22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."