8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
8:2 How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?
8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he hath cast them away for their transgression;
8:5 If thou wouldest seek to God early, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
8:6 If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8:8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
8:9 (For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)
8:10 Shall they not teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
8:11 Can the rush grow without mire? can the flag grow without water?
8:12 While it [is] still green, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.
8:13 So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrites hope shall perish:
8:14 Whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spiders web.
8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
8:16 He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
8:17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.
8:18 If he shall be destroyed from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
8:19 Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evildoers:
8:21 Till he shall fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.