Job 8:1-13 ▼

1 Then aunswered Bildad the Suhite, & said:

2 Howe long wilt thou talke of such thinges? howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie wind?

3 Doth God paruert the thing that is lawfull? or doth the almightie destroy the thing that is right?

4 For seyng that thy sonnes sinned against him, did not he send them into the place of their iniquitie?

5 If thou wouldest nowe resorte vnto God be times, and make thy prayer to the almightie,

6 If thou wouldest liue a pure and godly life: shoulde he not awake vp vnto thee immediatly, and make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous?

7 In so much that wherin so euer thou haddest litle afore, thou shouldest haue nowe great aboundaunce.

8 Enquire I pray thee of the former age, and search diligently among their fathers:

9 (For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe.)

10 Shall not they shew thee, and tel thee, yea and gladly confesse the same, and vtter the wordes of their heart?

11 May a rushe be greene without moystnesse? or may the grasse growe without water?

12 No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe:

13 So are the pathes of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall come to naught.