Job 8:1-19 ▼

1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:

2 “Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?

3 Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?

4 If your sons have sinned before Him, || And He sends them away, || By the hand of their transgression,

5 If you seek for God early, || And make supplication to the Mighty,

6 If you [are] pure and upright, || Surely now He wakes for you, || And has completed || The habitation of your righteousness.

7 And your beginning has been small, || And your latter end is very great.

8 For inquire, please, of a former generation, || And prepare for a search of their fathers,

9 For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, || For our days [are] a shadow on earth.

10 Do they not show you—speak to you, || And from their heart bring forth words?

11 Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water?

12 While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, || Even before any herb it withers.

13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, || And the hope of the profane perishes,

14 Whose confidence is loathsome, || And the house of a spider his trust.

15 He leans on his house—and it does not stand, || He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.

16 He [is] green before the sun, || And over his garden his branch goes out.

17 His roots are wrapped by a heap, || He looks for a house of stones.

18 If [one] destroys him from his place, || Then it has feigned concerning him, || I have not seen you!

19 Behold, this [is] the joy of His way, || And from the dust others spring up.