Job 8:1-13 ▼

1 Then in response, Bildad from Shuah said:

2 |How long will you keep talking like this? How long will you keep talking like a wind storm?

3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what's right?

4 |If your children sin against him, he'll make them a prisoner of their sins.

5 If you seek God, if you ask the Almighty for mercy,

6 if you are clean and upright, surely then, he'll act on your behalf and restore your rightful place.

7 Your beginning may be small, but later years will be very great.

8 |Inquire of the previous generation, won't you please? Consider what their forefathers searched out.

9 Because we are of yesterday and we know nothing, for our time on earth is only a shadow.

10 Won't they instruct you, and tell you, and bring out words from the heart?

11 |Can papyrus grow where there's no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

12 While they are still green and not yet ready to be harvested, they wither before any plant.

13 Such are the paths of everyone who forgets God— the hope of the godless will be destroyed: