Job 8 — DBY
8Verse 1And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,Verse 2How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?Verse 3Doth*God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?Verse 4If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.Verse 5If thou seek earnestly unto*God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,Verse 6If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;Verse 7And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.Verse 8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;Verse 9For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.Verse 10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?Verse 11Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?Verse 12Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.Verse 13So are the paths of all that forget*God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,Verse 14Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.Verse 15He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.Verse 16He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;Verse 17His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.Verse 18If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!Verse 19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.Verse 20Behold,*God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.Verse 21Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,Verse 22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.