Hiob 8

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

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