# Job 8 (New King James Version)
Bildad: Job Should Repent

##### Chapter 8
###### 1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

###### 2 "How long will you speak these _things,_  
And the words of your mouth _be like_ a strong wind?  

###### 3 Does God subvert judgment?  
Or does the Almighty pervert justice?  

###### 4 If your sons have sinned against Him,  
He has cast them away for their transgression.  

###### 5 If you would earnestly seek God  
And make your supplication to the Almighty,  

###### 6 If you _were_ pure and upright,  
Surely now He would awake for you,  
And prosper your rightful dwelling place.  

###### 7 Though your beginning was small,  
Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.

###### 8 "For inquire, please, of the former age,  
And consider the things discovered by their fathers;  

###### 9 For we _were born_ yesterday, and know nothing,  
Because our days on earth _are_ a shadow.  

###### 10 Will they not teach you and tell you,  
And utter words from their heart?

###### 11 "Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?  
Can the reeds flourish without water?  

###### 12 While it _is_ yet green _and_ not cut down,  
It withers before any _other_ plant.  

###### 13 So _are_ the paths of all who forget God;  
And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish,  

###### 14 Whose confidence shall be cut off,  
And whose trust _is_ a spider's web.  

###### 15 He leans on his house, but it does not stand.  
He holds it fast, but it does not endure.  

###### 16 He grows green in the sun,  
And his branches spread out in his garden.  

###### 17 His roots wrap around the rock heap,  
_And_ look for a place in the stones.  

###### 18 If he is destroyed from his place,  
Then _it_ will deny him, _saying,_ 'I have not seen you.'

###### 19 "Behold, this is the joy of His way,  
And out of the earth others will grow.  

###### 20 Behold, God will not cast away the blameless,  
Nor will He uphold the evildoers.  

###### 21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughing,  
And your lips with rejoicing.  

###### 22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,  
And the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing."