Job 8

¹Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,🔗🔍
²How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?🔗🔍
³Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?🔗🔍
⁴If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;🔗🔍
⁵If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;🔗🔍
⁶If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.🔗🔍
⁷Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.🔗🔍
⁸For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:🔗🔍
⁹(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)🔗🔍
¹⁰Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?🔗🔍
¹¹Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?🔗🔍
¹²Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.🔗🔍
¹³So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:🔗🔍
¹⁴Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.🔗🔍
¹⁵He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.🔗🔍
¹⁶He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.🔗🔍
¹⁷His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.🔗🔍
¹⁸If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.🔗🔍
¹⁹Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.🔗🔍
²⁰Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:🔗🔍
²¹Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.🔗🔍
²²They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.🔗🔍