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