1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, NHEB — Job 8:1
2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? NHEB — Job 8:2
3 Does God pervert justice? Or does Shaddai pervert righteousness? NHEB — Job 8:3
4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. NHEB — Job 8:4
5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your petition to Shaddai. NHEB — Job 8:5
6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. NHEB — Job 8:6
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase. NHEB — Job 8:7
8 "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers. NHEB — Job 8:8
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.) NHEB — Job 8:9
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart? NHEB — Job 8:10
11 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? NHEB — Job 8:11
12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. NHEB — Job 8:12
13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish, NHEB — Job 8:13
14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web. NHEB — Job 8:14
15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure. NHEB — Job 8:15
16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden. NHEB — Job 8:16
17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. NHEB — Job 8:17
18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.' NHEB — Job 8:18
19 Look, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring. NHEB — Job 8:19
20 "Look, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers. NHEB — Job 8:20
21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. NHEB — Job 8:21
22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more." NHEB — Job 8:22