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Job 8 Catholic Public Domain Version

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1 But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said:
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2 How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?
2 “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
3 Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?
3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
4 And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity,
4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
5 even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty.
5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
6 If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness,
6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
7 so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8 For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers,
8 “Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
9 (of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
10 and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts.
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?
11 “Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
12 When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.
12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
13 Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish.
13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
14 His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web.
14 whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
15 He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.
15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
16 He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.
16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
17 His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.
17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
18 If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: “I do not know you.”
18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
19 For this is the benefit of his way, that others in turn may spring up from the earth.
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
20 God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful,
20 “Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
21 even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing.
21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
22 Those who hate you, will be clothed with confusion, and the tabernacle of the impious will not continue.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
Cross references (22)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Job 2:11
  2. 2 Job 6:26; Job 15:2; 1 Kings 19:11; Job 7:11; Job 18:2
  3. 3 2 Chronicles 19:7; Deuteronomy 32:4; Genesis 18:25; Ezekiel 33:20; Job 34:10–12
  4. 4 Job 1:5; Job 5:4; Job 1:18–19; Genesis 19:13–25; Job 18:16–19
  5. 5 James 4:7–10; Matthew 7:7–8; Job 11:13; Isaiah 55:6–7; Hebrews 3:7–8
  6. 6 Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 3:10; Job 5:24; Psalm 7:6; Proverbs 15:8
  7. 7 Job 42:12–13; Matthew 13:31–32; Proverbs 19:20; Zechariah 4:10; Proverbs 4:18
  8. 8 Deuteronomy 4:32; Job 15:18; Deuteronomy 32:7; Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:11
  9. 9 1 Chronicles 29:15; Psalm 144:4; Job 14:2; Psalm 102:11; Genesis 47:9
  10. 10 Proverbs 18:15; Matthew 12:35; Deuteronomy 6:7; Psalm 145:4; Deuteronomy 11:19
  11. 11 Exodus 2:3; Isaiah 19:5–7
  12. 12 Jeremiah 17:6; Psalm 129:6–7; James 1:10–11; Matthew 13:20; 1 Peter 1:24
  13. 13 Psalm 9:17; Job 13:16; Job 11:20; Proverbs 10:28; Job 15:34
  14. 14 Isaiah 59:5–6
  15. 15 Job 27:18; Luke 6:47–49; Matthew 7:24–27; Proverbs 10:28; Psalm 49:11
  16. 16 Psalm 80:11; Job 21:7–15; Psalm 37:35–36; Psalm 73:3–12; Job 5:3
  17. 17 Job 18:16; Isaiah 5:24; Mark 11:20; Job 29:19; Isaiah 40:24
  18. 18 Job 7:10; Job 7:8; Psalm 37:36; Psalm 92:7; Job 20:9
  19. 19 Job 20:5; Psalm 113:7; 1 Samuel 2:8; Ezekiel 17:24; Matthew 13:20–21
  20. 20 Job 4:7; Psalm 37:37; Psalm 37:24; Isaiah 45:1; Psalm 94:14
  21. 21 Psalm 126:2; Genesis 21:6; Psalm 126:6; Psalm 32:11; Luke 6:21
  22. 22 Psalm 132:18; Psalm 35:26; Psalm 109:29; Job 18:14; Job 8:18

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences