Job 8
22 verses · King James Version
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,2How long wilt thou speak these and the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;6If thou pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:9(For we yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth a shadow:)10Shall not they teach thee, tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?12Whilst it yet in his greenness, not cut down, it withereth before any herb.13So the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust a spider’s web.15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.16He green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.17His roots are wrapped about the heap, seeth the place of stones.18If he destroy him from his place, then shall deny him, I have not seen thee.19Behold, this the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect neither will he help the evil doers:21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.