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href="../job/7.htm" 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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said: <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>How long wilt thou speak these things,</div><div class="po2">Seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Doth God pervert judgment?</div><div class="po2">Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If thy children sinned against Him,</div><div class="po2">He delivered them into the hand of their transgression.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God,</div><div class="po2">And make thy supplication to the Almighty;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If thou wert pure and upright;</div><div class="po2">Surely now He would awake for thee,</div><div class="po2">And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And though thy beginning was small,</div><div class="po2">Yet thy end should greatly increase.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation,</div><div class="po2">And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,</div><div class="po2">Because our days upon earth are a shadow—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee,</div><div class="po2">And utter words out of their heart?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Can the rush shoot up without mire?</div><div class="po2">Can the reed-grass grow without water?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down,</div><div class="po2">It withereth before any other herb.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So are the paths of all that forget God;</div><div class="po2">And the hope of the godless man shall perish;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Whose confidence is gossamer,</div><div class="po2">And whose trust is a spider’s web.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand;</div><div class="po2">He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He is green before the sun,</div><div class="po2">And his shoots go forth over his garden.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>His roots are wrapped about the heap,</div><div class="po2">He beholdeth the place of stones.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If he be destroyed from his place,</div><div class="po2">Then it shall deny him: ‘I have not seen thee.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Behold, this is the joy of his way,</div><div class="po2">And out of the earth shall others spring.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Behold, God will not cast away an innocent man,</div><div class="po2">Neither will He uphold the evil-doers;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Till He fill thy mouth with laughter,</div><div class="po2">And thy lips with shouting.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame;</div><div class="po2">And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' 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