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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/8.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Bildad: Job Should Repent</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Job-8-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“How long will you speak these <i>things,</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-8-2">And the words of your mouth <i>be like</i> a strong wind?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Does God subvert judgment?</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-3">Or does the Almighty pervert justice?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If your sons have sinned against Him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-4">He has cast them away <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>for their transgression.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If you would earnestly seek God</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-5">And make your supplication to the Almighty,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If you <i>were</i> pure and upright,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-6">Surely now He would <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>awake for you,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-6">And prosper your rightful dwelling place.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Though your beginning was small,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-7">Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“For inquire, please, of the former age,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-8">And consider the things discovered by their fathers;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For we <i>were born</i> yesterday, and know <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>nothing,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-9">Because our days on earth <i>are</i> a shadow.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Will they not teach you and tell you,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-10">And utter words from their heart?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-11">Can the reeds flourish without water?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>While it <i>is</i> yet green <i>and</i> not cut down,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-12">It withers before any <i>other</i> plant.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So <i>are</i> the paths of all who forget God;</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-13">And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Whose confidence shall be cut off,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-14">And whose trust <i>is</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>a spider’s web.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He leans on his house, but it does not stand.</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-15">He holds it fast, but it does not endure.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He grows green in the sun,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-16">And his branches spread out in his garden.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>His roots wrap around the rock heap,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-17"><i>And</i> look for a place in the stones.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If he is destroyed from his place,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-18">Then <i>it</i> will deny him, <i>saying,</i> ‘I have not seen you.’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Behold, this is the joy of His way,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-19">And out of the earth others will grow.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Behold, God will not <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>cast away the blameless,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-20">Nor will He uphold the evildoers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He will yet fill your mouth with laughing,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-21">And your lips with <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>rejoicing.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,</span><br /><span class="text Job-8-22">And the dwelling place of the wicked <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>will come to nothing.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13034a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 8:4">Job 8:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>into the hand of their transgression</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13036b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 8:6">Job 8:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>arise</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13039c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 8:9">Job 8:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>not</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13044d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 8:14">Job 8:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>a spider’s house</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13050e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 8:20">Job 8:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>reject</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13051f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 8:21">Job 8:21</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>shouts of joy</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13052g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 8:22">Job 8:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>will not be</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James 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