Job 8:1-17 ▼

1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

2 “Until when will you speak these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

3 Does God pervert judgment? Or does Shaddai pervert justice?

4 If your sons have sinned against Him, then He has sent them into the hand of their transgression.

5 If you seek diligently for God, and ask Shaddai for favor,

6 if you are pure and upright, surely now He will rouse Himself over you and restore the abode of your righteousness.

7 And your beginning was small, and your end will greatly increase.

8 For inquire, please, of the former generation, and consider the finding of their fathers.

9 For we are of yesterday, and we do not know; indeed, our days are a shadow upon the earth.

10 Will they not instruct you and speak to you, and from their heart bring forth words?

11 Can the papyrus rise up without a marsh? Can the reed grow without waters?

12 It is still in its greenness—it is not cut down, and before all grass, it withers.

13 So are the paths of all those forgetting God; and the hope of the godless will perish,

14 for whom his confidence shall be cut off, and his trust the house of a spider.

15 He leans upon his house, and it does not stand; he takes firm hold on it, and it does not arise.

16 He is lush before the face of the sun, and over his garden, his shoot goes forth;

17 over a rock-pile his roots are wrapped, he looks for a house of stones.