📖 Job 8
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Bildad’s First Speech to Job Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said:
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“How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?
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Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?
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If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
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But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,
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if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous home.
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Your beginning will seem so small, since your future will flourish.
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“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;
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For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
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Will they not instruct you and speak to you, and bring forth words from their understanding?
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Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?
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While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!
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Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes,
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whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.
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He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.
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He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.
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It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.
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If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’
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Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.
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“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.
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He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with gladness.
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Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”