| Job, Chapter 8 |
| 001: | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
| 002: | How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? |
| 003: | Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? |
| 004: | If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; |
| 005: | If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; |
| 006: | If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. |
| 007: | Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. |
| 008: | For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: |
| 009: | (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) |
| 010: | Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? |
| 011: | Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? |
| 012: | Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. |
| 013: | So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: |
| 014: | Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. |
| 015: | He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. |
| 016: | He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. |
| 017: | His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. |
| 018: | If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. |
| 019: | Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. |
| 020: | Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: |
| 021: | Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. |
| 022: | They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. |
