Job 8 · Clearspring

Bildad: Job Should Repent

¹Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,+ ²How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?+ ³Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?+ ⁴If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.+ ⁵If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;+ ⁶If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.+ ⁷And though your start was small, your end will be very great.+ ⁸Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:+ ⁹(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)+ ¹⁰Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?+ ¹¹Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?+ ¹²When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.+ ¹³So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:+ ¹⁴Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.+ ¹⁵He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.+ ¹⁶He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.+ ¹⁷His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.+ ¹⁸If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.+ ¹⁹Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.+ ²⁰Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.+ ²¹The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.+ ²²Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.+

Bildad: Job Should Repent

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