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Job 8

1 Then Bildad from Shuah replied [to Job],

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

2 "How long will you say these things? How long will your words be so windy?

2 “How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.

3 Does God distort justice, or does the Almighty distort righteousness?

3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

4 If your children sinned against him, he allowed them to suffer the consequences of their sinfulness.

4 When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

5 If you search for God and plead for mercy from the Almighty,

5 But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,

6 if you are moral and ethical, then he will rise up on your behalf and prove your righteousness by rebuilding your home.

6 if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.

7 Then what you had in the past will seem small compared with the great prosperity you'll have in the future.

7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.

8 "Ask the people of past generations. Find out what their ancestors had learned.

8 “Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,

9 We have only been around since yesterday, and we know nothing. Our days on earth are only a fleeting shadow.

9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

10 Won't their words teach you? Won't they share their thoughts with you?

10 Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?

11 "Can papyrus grow up where there is no swamp? Can rushes grow tall without water?

11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?

12 Even if they were fresh and not cut, they would wither quicker than grass.

12 While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.

13 The same thing happens to all who forget God. The hope of the godless dies.

13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.

14 His confidence is easily shattered. His trust is a spider's web.

14 What they trust in is fragile ; what they rely on is a spider’s web.

15 If one leans on his house, it collapses. If one holds on to it, it will not support his weight.

15 They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.

16 He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine. The shoots spread over his garden.

16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;

17 Its roots weave through a pile of stones. They cling to a stone house.

17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.

18 But when it is uprooted from its place, [the ground] denies it [and says], 'I never saw you!'

18 But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’

19 That is its joy in this life, and others sprout from the same ground to [take its place].

19 Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow.

20 "Certainly, God does not reject a person of integrity or give a helping hand to wicked people.

20 “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.

21 He will fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with happy shouting.

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 cease to exist."

22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”