Jó 8

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:


3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?




7 And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.

8 "For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;

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?


13 Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.

14 His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web.


16 He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.

17 His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.

18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, `ng, "I have never seen you.'

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth others will spring.


