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Job 8
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
“How long will you speak these things?
“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
If your children have sinned against him,
When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
If you want to seek God diligently,
But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
If you were pure and upright,
if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
Though your beginning was small,
Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
“Please enquire of past generations.
Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
Shall they not teach you, tell you,
Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?
“Can the papyrus grow up without mire?
Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down,
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass.
So are the paths of all who forget God.
Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
whose confidence will break apart,
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
He will lean on his house, but it will not stand.
He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
He is green before the sun.
He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
His roots are wrapped around the rock pile.
His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.
If he is destroyed from his place,
If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
Behold, this is the joy of his way.
Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man,
Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
He will still fill your mouth with laughter,
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
Those who hate you will be clothed with shame.
Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”