3.
Bildad's rebuttal
8:1-22
Job 8
:1
8:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite
1answered and said,
Job 8
:2
8:2
How long will you speak these things?
And
how long will the words of your mouth be
like a mighty wind?
Job 8
:3
8:3
Does God pervert
ajustice?
Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 8
:4
8:4
If your
achildren have sinned against Him,
He has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
Job 8
:5
8:5
If you seek earnestly after God
And make supplication unto the Almighty,
Job 8
:6
8:6
If you are pure and upright,
Then surely He will rouse Himself for you
And restore well-being to your righteous habitation.
Job 8
:7
8:7
And though your beginning was small,
Your end will be very great.
Job 8
:8
8:8
For inquire now of the former generation,
And attend to what their fathers have sought out.
Job 8
:9
8:9
For we are of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days upon the earth are a
ashadow.
Job 8
:10
8:10
Will they not teach you
and talk to you
And utter forth words from their heart?
Job 8
:11
8:11
Can papyrus shoot up without marsh?
Can reeds grow without water?
Job 8
:12
8:12
While it is still in its greenness
and not cut down,
It
awithers before all
other grasses.
Job 8
:13
8:13
So are the paths of all who forget God;
And the hope of the profane perishes,
Job 8
:14
8:14
Whose confidence is cut off,
And whose trust is a spider’s web.
Job 8
:15
8:15
He leans upon his house, but it will not stand;
He holds fast to it, but it will not endure.
Job 8
:16
8:16
He is full of sap before the sun,
And his shoots go forth over his garden.
Job 8
:17
8:17
His roots are entwined around a stone heap;
He looks upon a place of stones.
Job 8
:18
8:18
If 1one destroys him from his place,
Then it denies him,
saying, I have not seen you.
Job 8
:19
8:19
Indeed, that is the joy of his way;
And others spring forth out of the dust.
Job 8
:20
8:20
Indeed, God will not reject a perfect man,
Nor will He support evildoers.
Job 8
:21
8:21
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
And your lips with shouting.
Job 8
:22
8:22
Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
And the tent of the wicked will be no more.
