Speaker · human
Bildad
Verses spoken by Bildad
- Job 8:1 — Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
- Job 8:2 — How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
- Job 8:3 — Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- Job 8:4 — If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
- Job 8:5 — If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
- Job 8:6 — If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- Job 8:7 — Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
- Job 8:8 — For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
- Job 8:9 — (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
- Job 8:10 — Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
- Job 8:11 — Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- Job 8:12 — Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
- Job 8:13 — So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
- Job 8:14 — Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
- Job 8:15 — He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.