Job 8:1-13 ▼

1 And Bildad the Shuhite will answer and say,

2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and the great spirit of the words of thy mouth?

3 Will God pervert judgment? and if the Almighty will pervert justice?

4 If thy sons sinned to him, and he will send them away by the hand of their transgression;

5 If thou shalt seek to God, if thou shalt make supplication to him;

6 If thou wert pure and upright, for now he will awake for thee and requite the habitation of thy justice.

7 And thy beginning was small, and thy latter state shall increase greatly.

8 For ask now to the first generation, and prepare to seek their fathers:

9 (For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)

10 Shall they not teach thee, and say to thee, and bring forth words from their heart?

11 Shall the bulrush lift itself up without a marsh? shall the marsh grass grow without water?

12 While yet in its greenness it shall not break off, and it will dry up before grass.

13 So the paths of all forgetting God and the hope of the profane one shall perish.