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