Hiob 8

¹Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
²How long wilt thou speak these things, seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind?
³Doth God pervert judgment? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
⁴If thy children sinned against Him, He delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
⁵If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
⁶If thou wert pure and upright; surely now He would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
⁷And though thy beginning was small, yet thy end should greatly increase.
⁸For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out--
⁹For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow--
¹⁰Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
¹¹Can the rush shoot up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?
¹²Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
¹³So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the godless man shall perish;
¹⁴Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.
¹⁵He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
¹⁶He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
¹⁷His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.
¹⁸If he be destroyed 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 earth shall others spring.
²⁰Behold, God will not cast away an innocent man, neither will He uphold the evil-doers;
²¹Till He fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.
²²They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

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