Job 8
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answer-ed, and said,
2 How long shalt thou speak such things? The spirit of the word of thy mouth is manyfold.
3 Whether God supplanteth, either deceiveth, doom, and whether Almighty God destroyeth that, that is just or rightwise?
4 Yea, though thy sons sinned against him, and he left them in the hand of their wickedness;
5 nevertheless, if thou risest early to God, and beseechest Almighty God,
6 if thou goest clean and rightful, anon he shall wake fully to thee, and shall make peaceable the dwelling place of thy rightfulness or rightwiseness;
7 in so much that thy former things were little, and that thy last things be multiplied greatly.
8 For why, ask thou the former generations, and seek thou diligently the mind of the fathers.
9 For we be men of yesterday, and know not; for our days be as a shadow on the earth.
10 And they shall teach thee, and they shall speak to thee, and of their heart they shall bring forth true speeches.
11 Whether a bulrush may grow with-out moisture? either a reed without water?
12 When it is yet in the flower, neither it is taken with hand, it waxeth dry before all herbs.
13 So be the ways of all men, that forget God; and the hope of an hypocrite shall perish.
14 His cowardice shall not please God, and his trust shall be as a web of spiders.
15 He shall lean, either rest, upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall underset it, and it shall not rise up altogether.
16 The bulrush seemeth moist, before that the sun come; and in the rising of the sun, the seed thereof shall go out.
17 The roots thereof shall be made thick upon an heap of stones, and it shall dwell among the stones.
18 If a man draweth it out of the place thereof, that place shall deny it, and it shall say, I know thee not.
19 For this is the gladness of his way, that again other bulrushes spring out of the earth.
20 Forsooth God shall not cast away a simple man, neither he shall dress his hand to help wicked men;
21 till thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with hearty song.
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the taber-nacle of wicked men shall not stand.
Cross-references
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- 1Job 2:11
- 2Job 6:26, Job 15:2, 1Ki 19:11, Job 11:2–3, Job 18:2, Job 16:3, Exo 10:7, Job 6:9
- 3Deu 32:4, 2Ch 19:7, Gen 18:25, Job 34:10–12, Rom 3:4–6, Dan 9:14, Ezk 33:20, Job 40:8
- 4Job 1:5, Job 1:18–19, Job 5:4, Job 18:16–19, Gen 19:13–25, Gen 13:13
- 5Jas 4:7–10, Job 11:13, Heb 3:7–8, Isa 55:6–7, Mat 7:7–8, 2Ch 33:12–13, Job 5:8, Job 22:21–30
- 6Isa 51:9, Job 5:24, Isa 3:10, Psa 7:6, Pro 15:8, Psa 59:4–5, Job 16:17, Job 4:6–7
- 7Job 42:12–13, Mat 13:31–32, Pro 19:20, Zec 4:10, Pro 4:18, Zec 14:7, Mat 13:12, Deu 8:16
- 8Job 15:18, Deu 32:7, Deu 4:32, Rom 15:4, 1Co 10:11, Job 32:6–7, Isa 38:19, Psa 44:1
- 91Ch 29:15, Psa 144:4, Job 14:2, Psa 102:11, Job 7:6, Gen 47:9, Psa 90:4, Psa 39:5
- 10Pro 18:15, Mat 12:35, Pro 16:23, Job 32:7, Job 12:7–8, Heb 12:1, Deu 6:7, Psa 145:4
- 11Exo 2:3, Isa 19:5–7
- 12Jer 17:6, Mat 13:20, 1Pe 1:24, Psa 129:6–7, Jas 1:10–11
- 13Psa 9:17, Job 13:16, Job 11:20, Job 15:34, Pro 10:28, Job 20:5, Deu 8:11, Deu 8:19
- 14Isa 59:5–6
- 15Job 27:18, Mat 7:24–27, Luk 6:47–49, Psa 52:5–7, Pro 10:28, Job 18:14, Psa 49:11, Psa 112:10
- 16Psa 80:11, Psa 73:3–12, Jer 11:16, Psa 37:35–36, Job 5:3, Job 21:7–15
- 17Isa 40:24, Job 29:19, Mrk 11:20, Job 18:16, Jer 12:1–2, Isa 5:24, Jud 1:12
- 18Job 7:10, Job 7:8, Psa 37:36, Psa 37:10, Psa 92:7, Psa 73:18–19, Job 20:9
- 19Job 20:5, 1Sa 2:8, Psa 113:7, Psa 75:7, Mat 13:20–21, Mat 3:9, Ezk 17:24
- 20Job 4:7, Psa 37:37, Psa 37:24, Isa 45:1, Psa 94:14, Job 21:30, Job 9:22
- 21Psa 126:2, Gen 21:6, Psa 126:6, Psa 32:11, Luk 6:21, Isa 65:13–14, Job 5:22, Ezr 3:11–13
- 22Psa 132:18, Psa 35:26, Psa 109:29, Job 18:14, Job 8:18, Job 7:21, 1Pe 5:5