Job 8 · Clearspring

Bildad: Job Should Repent

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,+ ²“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?+ ³Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?+ ⁴If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.+ ⁵If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.+ ⁶If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.+ ⁷Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.+ ⁸“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.+ ⁹(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)+ ¹⁰Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?+ ¹¹“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?+ ¹²While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.+ ¹³So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,+ ¹⁴Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.+ ¹⁵He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.+ ¹⁶He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.+ ¹⁷His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.+ ¹⁸If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’+ ¹⁹Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.+ ²⁰“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.+ ²¹He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.+ ²²Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more.”+

Bildad: Job Should Repent

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