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The Book of Job

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- Chapter 8 -

Bildad: Let Job repent

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Then Bildad, from the Shuah area, spoke to Job. He said,
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“Job, how much longer will you talk like this? What you say is as useless as a big wind.
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God Almighty certainly never does anything unfairly. He always does what is right.
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Your children have sinned against him; this is evident because he has punished them for those evil things.
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But now, if only you will earnestly request God Almighty to help you!
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If only you were pure and honest! Then he will surely do something good for you and reward you by giving your family back to you and making you prosper.
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Even though you were not very prosperous before, during the last stage of your life you would become very wealthy.
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I request you to think about what happened long ago and to consider what our ancestors found out.
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It seems as though we were born only yesterday and we know very little; our time here on the earth disappears quickly, like a shadow that is here and then gone.
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So why not allow your ancestors to teach you anything? Let them tell you what they learned!
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Papyrus certainly does not grow away from marshland; reeds certainly cannot grow where there is no water.
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If the water dries up while they are blossoming, they wither more quickly than any other plant.
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Those who do not pay attention to what God says are like those reeds; godless people stop confidently expecting that good things will happen to them.
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The things they confidently expect to happen do not happen; things they trust will help them are as weak as a spider’s web.
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If they think they will be safe because they are wealthy, they will not be safe; the things they think will keep them safe, those things will disappear.
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Godless people are like plants that are watered before the sun rises: their shoots spread all over the gardens.
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The roots of those plants twist around the piles of stones and cling tightly to the rocks.
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But if a gardener pulls those plants out, it is as though the place where they were planted says, ‘They were never here!’ That is what happens to wicked people who do not pay attention to what God says.
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Truly, this is all the joy that evil people have: other people just come and take their places.
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So, I tell you, Job, God will not reject you if you honor him, but he does not help evil people.
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He will always enable you to laugh and to shout joyfully.
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But those who hate you will be very ashamed, and the homes of wicked people will disappear.”
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Bildad: Let Job repent

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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
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“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
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Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
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If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
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If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
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If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
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Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
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“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
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(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
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“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
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While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
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So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
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whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
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He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
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He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
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His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
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If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
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Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
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“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
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He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
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Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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