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Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent

 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

² “How long will you say these things,
and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
³ Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
⁴ If your children have sinned against him,
he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
⁵ If you will seek God
and plead with the Almighty for mercy,
⁶ if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore your rightful habitation.
⁷ And though your beginning was small,
your latter days will be very great.

⁸ “For inquire, please, of bygone ages,
and consider what the fathers have searched out.
⁹ For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are a shadow.
¹⁰ Will they not teach you and tell you
and utter words out of their understanding?

¹¹ “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
¹² While yet in flower and not cut down,
they wither before any other plant.
¹³ Such are the paths of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless shall perish.
¹⁴ His confidence is severed,
and his trust is a spider's web.^[a]
15 He leans against his house, but it does not stand;
he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
¹⁶ He is a lush plant before the sun,
and his shoots spread over his garden.
¹⁷ His roots entwine the stone heap;
he looks upon a house of stones.
¹⁸ If he is destroyed from his place,
then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way,
and out of the soil others will spring.

²⁰ “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,
nor take the hand of evildoers.
²¹ He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
and your lips with shouting.
²² Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

Footnotes:

1. Job 8:14 Hebrew house

Cross references:

1. Job 8:1 : ch. 2:11
2. Job 8:2 : 1 Kgs. 19:11; [ch. 15:2]
3. Job 8:3 : ch. 34:12; [Gen. 18:25; Deut. 32:4; 2 Chr. 19:7; Ezra 9:15; Dan. 9:14; Rom. 3:5]
4. Job 8:4 : ch. 1:5, 18, 19
5. Job 8:5 : ch. 9:15
6. Job 8:6 : See Ps. 7:6
7. Job 8:6 : [Prov. 3:33]
8. Job 8:7 : [ch. 42:12; James 5:11]
9. Job 8:8 : Deut. 4:32; 32:7; [ch. 15:18]
10. Job 8:8 : ch. 15:18
11. Job 8:9 : ch. 14:2; 17:7; 1 Chr. 29:15; Ps. 102:11; 109:23; 144:4; Eccles. 6:12
12. Job 8:12 : [Ps. 37:2; 129:6]
13. Job 8:13 : See Ps. 9:17
14. Job 8:13 : Prov. 10:28; 11:7
15. Job 8:13 : ch. 13:16; 15:34; 27:8
16. Job 8:14 : [Isa. 59:5, 6]
17. Job 8:15 : ch. 27:18
18. Job 8:16 : Ps. 80:11
19. Job 8:18 : See ch. 7:10
20. Job 8:18 : ch. 7:8
21. Job 8:19 : [1 Sam. 2:7, 8; Ps. 103:16; 113:7]
22. Job 8:21 : Ps. 126:2
23. Job 8:22 : Ps. 35:26; 132:18; [Ps. 109:29]