The Book of Job

8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

 ^8:2How long wilt thou speak these things?

 And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?

 ^8:3Doth God pervert justice?

 Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?

 ^8:4If thy children have sinned against him,

 And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;

 ^8:5If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God,

 And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

 ^8:6If thou wert pure and upright:

 Surely now he would awake for thee,

 And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

 ^8:7And though thy beginning was small,

 Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

 ^8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age,

 And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:

 ^8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,

 Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

 ^8:10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee,

 And utter words out of their heart?
 
 

 ^8:11Can the rush grow up without mire?

 Can the flag grow without water?

 ^8:12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down,

 It withereth before any other herb.

 ^8:13So are the paths of all that forget God;

 And the hope of the godless man shall perish:

 ^8:14Whose confidence shall break in sunder,

 And whose trust is a spider's web.

 ^8:15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand:

 He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

 ^8:16He is green before the sun,

 And his shoots go forth over his garden.

 ^8:17His roots are wrapped about the stone -heap,

 He beholdeth the place of stones.

 ^8:18If he be destroyed from his place,

 Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

 ^8:19Behold, this is the joy of his way;

 And out of the earth shall others spring.

 ^8:20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man,

 Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

 ^8:21He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter,

 And thy lips with shouting.

 ^8:22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame;

 And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.