Bildad’s First Response to Job

8 Then[fn] Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,[fn]

• 2 [fn] will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
• 3 [fn] Shaddai pervert righteousness?
• 4  then[fn] he sent them into the[fn] of their transgression.
• 5 [fn] would seek God, then[fn] you would plead to Shaddai for grace.
• 6 are pure and upright, indeed,[fn] now he will rouse himself for you,
• and he will restore your righteous abode.
• 7 [fn] your beginning was small, your end[fn] will be very great.
• 8 [fn] please inquire of former generations, and consider[fn]
• 9 are of yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth are a shadow.
• 10 [fn] not teach you and[fn] and[fn] words from their heart?
• 11 there is not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water?[fn]
• 12 is in its flower and is not plucked, yet[fn] it withers[fn] all grass.
• 13 are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless will perish,
• 14  and[fn] is a spider’s house.
• 15 [fn] it will not stand; he will take hold of it, but[fn] it will not endure.
• 16 is[fn][fn] the sun, and his plant shoots spread over his garden.
• 17  he sees a house of stone.
• 18  then[fn] it deceives him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
• 19 is the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.
• 20 the blameless, and he will not uphold the hand of evildoers.
• 21 with laughter and your lips with a shout of joy.
• 22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked[fn]