ULT JOB Chapter 8

8 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

2 “Until when will you say these things,

and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

3 Does God pervert justice?

Or does Shaddai pervert righteousness?

4 If your children sinned against him,

then he put them in the hand of their sins.

5 If you seek diligently for God,

and to Shaddai you appeal,

6 if you are pure and upright,

surely now he will rouse himself for you

and restore the habitation of your righteousness.

7 Though your beginning was small,

yet your end will increase greatly.

8 For inquire now of the former generations

and consider the finding of their fathers.

9 For we are of yesterday and we do not know,

for our days on earth are a shadow.

10 Will they not teach you? They will speak to you,

and from their hearts they will bring forth words.

11 Does papyrus grow without a marsh?

Does a reed grow without waters?

12 It is still in its greenness, it is not cut down,

but it withers before any other plant.

13 Thus are the paths of all the ones forgetting God,

and the hope of the godless will perish,

14 whose confidence snaps

and whose trust is the house of a spider.

15 He leans himself against his house and it does not stand;

he takes hold of it, but it does not arise.

16 It is lush to the face of the sun,

and its shoots go out over its garden.

17 Its roots are wrapped around a heap;

it looks for a house of rocks.

18 When one destroys it from its place,

then it will deny him, ‘I did not see you.’

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way,

and from the dust other plants will sprout.

20 Behold, God will not reject the innocent,

but he will not hold the hand of evildoers.

21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,

your lips with shouting.

22 The ones hating you will wear shame,

and the tent of the wicked will not exist.”