Job 8 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2 Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde?
2 “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
3 Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?
3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
4 If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,
4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
5 Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,
5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
6 If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.
6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
7 And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8 Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.
8 “Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
10 Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water?
11 “Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
12 Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.
12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
13 So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.
13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
14 His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.
14 whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
15 He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
16 The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.
16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
17 The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.
17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
18 If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,
18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
19 Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
20 Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,
20 “Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
21 Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.
21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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Bildad
Bildad the Shuhite, one of Job's three friends, who answered Job in the dialogues and was rebuked by the LORD.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 8:1; Job 18:1
Cross references (22)
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- 1 Job 2:11
- 2 Job 6:26; Job 15:2; 1 Kings 19:11; Job 7:11; Job 18:2
- 3 2 Chronicles 19:7; Deuteronomy 32:4; Genesis 18:25; Ezekiel 33:20; Job 34:10–12
- 4 Job 1:5; Job 5:4; Job 1:18–19; Genesis 19:13–25; Job 18:16–19
- 5 James 4:7–10; Matthew 7:7–8; Job 11:13; Isaiah 55:6–7; Hebrews 3:7–8
- 6 Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 3:10; Job 5:24; Psalm 7:6; Proverbs 15:8
- 7 Job 42:12–13; Matthew 13:31–32; Proverbs 19:20; Zechariah 4:10; Proverbs 4:18
- 8 Deuteronomy 4:32; Job 15:18; Deuteronomy 32:7; Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:11
- 9 1 Chronicles 29:15; Psalm 144:4; Job 14:2; Psalm 102:11; Genesis 47:9
- 10 Proverbs 18:15; Matthew 12:35; Deuteronomy 6:7; Psalm 145:4; Deuteronomy 11:19
- 11 Exodus 2:3; Isaiah 19:5–7
- 12 Jeremiah 17:6; Psalm 129:6–7; James 1:10–11; Matthew 13:20; 1 Peter 1:24
- 13 Psalm 9:17; Job 13:16; Job 11:20; Proverbs 10:28; Job 15:34
- 14 Isaiah 59:5–6
- 15 Job 27:18; Luke 6:47–49; Matthew 7:24–27; Proverbs 10:28; Psalm 49:11
- 16 Psalm 80:11; Job 21:7–15; Psalm 37:35–36; Psalm 73:3–12; Job 5:3
- 17 Job 18:16; Isaiah 5:24; Mark 11:20; Job 29:19; Isaiah 40:24
- 18 Job 7:10; Job 7:8; Psalm 37:36; Psalm 92:7; Job 20:9
- 19 Job 20:5; Psalm 113:7; 1 Samuel 2:8; Ezekiel 17:24; Matthew 13:20–21
- 20 Job 4:7; Psalm 37:37; Psalm 37:24; Isaiah 45:1; Psalm 94:14
- 21 Psalm 126:2; Genesis 21:6; Psalm 126:6; Psalm 32:11; Luke 6:21
- 22 Psalm 132:18; Psalm 35:26; Psalm 109:29; Job 18:14; Job 8:18
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