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Job 8 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Bildad: Job Should Repent
Bildad Says Job Should Repent
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:1 - Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:2 - “How long will you speak these things,
And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:3 - Does God subvert judgment?
Or does the Almighty pervert justice?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:4 - If your sons have sinned against Him,
He has cast them away for their transgression.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:5 - If you would earnestly seek God
And make your supplication to the Almighty,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:6 - If you were pure and upright,
Surely now He would awake for you,
And prosper your rightful dwelling place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:7 - Though your beginning was small,
Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:8 - “For inquire, please, of the former age,
And consider the things discovered by their fathers;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:9 - For we were born yesterday, and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are a shadow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:10 - Will they not teach you and tell you,
And utter words from their heart?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:11 - “Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
Can the reeds flourish without water?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:12 - While it is yet green and not cut down,
It withers before any other plant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:13 - So are the paths of all who forget God;
And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:14 - Whose confidence shall be cut off,
And whose trust is a spider’s web.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:15 - He leans on his house, but it does not stand.
He holds it fast, but it does not endure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:16 - He grows green in the sun,
And his branches spread out in his garden.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:17 - His roots wrap around the rock heap,
And look for a place in the stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:18 - If he is destroyed from his place,
Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:19 - “Behold, this is the joy of His way,
And out of the earth others will grow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:20 - Behold, God will not cast away the blameless,
Nor will He uphold the evildoers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:21 - He will yet fill your mouth with laughing,
And your lips with rejoicing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:22 - Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
And the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing.”[fn]
NKJV Footnotes
Literally will not be
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New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

The text of the New King James Version (NKJV) appearing on or deriving from this or any other web page is for personal use only. Any other use of the NKJV must be in conformity with the Quotation Policy for the New King James Version. For more information about the New King James Version, the Quotation Policy, and for inquiries about permission to use the New King James Version, go to Thomas Nelson, Inc..

For more information on this translation, see the NKJV Preface.

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