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title="Job 7">◄</a> Job 8 <a href="../job/9.htm" title="Job 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“How long will you say these things,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the words of your mouth be a great wind?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Does God pervert justice?</span><br /><span class="indent">Or does the Almighty pervert the right?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If your children have sinned against him,</span><br /><span class="indent">he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If you will seek God</span><br /><span class="indent">and plead with the Almighty for mercy,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">if you are pure and upright,</span><br /><span class="indent">surely then he will rouse himself for you</span><br /><span class="indent">and restore your rightful habitation.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And though your beginning was small,</span><br /><span class="indent">your latter days will be very great.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“For inquire, please, of bygone ages,</span><br /><span class="indent">and consider what the fathers have searched out.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,</span><br /><span class="indent">for our days on earth are a shadow.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will they not teach you and tell you</span><br /><span class="indent">and utter words out of their understanding?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?</span><br /><span class="indent">Can reeds flourish where there is no water?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">While yet in flower and not cut down,</span><br /><span class="indent">they wither before any other plant.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Such are the paths of all who forget God;</span><br /><span class="indent">the hope of the godless shall perish.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His confidence is severed,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his trust is a spider’s web.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew house">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He leans against his house, but it does not stand;</span><br /><span class="indent">he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He is a lush plant before the sun,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his shoots spread over his garden.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His roots entwine the stone heap;</span><br /><span class="indent">he looks upon a house of stones.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If he is destroyed from his place,</span><br /><span class="indent">then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, this is the joy of his way,</span><br /><span class="indent">and out of the soil others will spring.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor take the hand of evildoers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your lips with shouting.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Hebrew <i>house</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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