Job 8

1Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

2How long will you speak such things? Shall words from your mouth be a mighty wind?

3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

4If your children sinned against him, he sent them into the hand of their transgression.

5If you earnestly seek God and beseech the Almighty,

6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would rouse himself for you and restore the dwelling of your righteousness.

7Though your beginning is small, your end will increase greatly.

8Please ask the former generation and prepare yourself for their fathers' search.

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

10Will they not instruct you and tell you, bringing words from their hearts?

11Does rush grow up without mire? Does flag grow without water?

12While still in its greenness and not yet plucked, it withers before any grass.

13Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the hypocrite will perish.

14Whose confidence will be cut off, his trust a spider's house.

15He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He grasps it, but it does not remain.

16He is green before the sun, and his shoot goes forth over his garden.

17His roots wrap around the heap; he beholds the house of stones.

18If it swallows him from his place, then it disowns him: I have not seen you.

19Look, this is the joy of his way: from the dust others will sprout.

20Behold, God will not reject the blameless, nor strengthen the hand of evildoers.

21until he fills your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouting.

22Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.