# Job 8 
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1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 
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2. “How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? 
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3. Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? 
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4. If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. 
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5. If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, 
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6. if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation. 
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7. And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great. 
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8. “For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out. 
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9. For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow. 
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10. Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding? 
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11. “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water? 
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12. While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant. 
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13. Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish. 
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14. His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider’s web. 
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15. He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure. 
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16. He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden. 
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17. His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones. 
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18. If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ 
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19. Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring. 
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20. “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers. 
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21. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting. 
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22. Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.” 

(ESV)