# Job 8 [[Job-07|← Job 07]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-09|Job 09 →]] *** ###### v1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, ###### v2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? ###### v3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? ###### v4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. ###### v5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. ###### v6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. ###### v7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase. ###### v8 "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers. ###### v9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.) ###### v10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart? ###### v11 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? ###### v12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. ###### v13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish, ###### v14 Whose confidence will break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web. ###### v15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure. ###### v16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden. ###### v17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. ###### v18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.' ###### v19 Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring. ###### v20 "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers. ###### v21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. ###### v22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more." *** [[Job-07|← Job 07]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-09|Job 09 →]]