Verse 1
Job 8:1
World Messianic Bible
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ֭/יַּעַן בִּלְדַּ֥ד הַ/שּׁוּחִ֗י וַ/יֹאמַֽר
English Translation
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 8 Context
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
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“How long will you speak these things?
Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
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Does God (Elohim) pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
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If your children have sinned against him,
He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience....
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If you want to seek God (Elohim) diligently,
make your supplication to the Almighty.
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If you were pure and upright,
surely now he would awaken for you,
and make the habitation of your ri...
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Though your beginning was small,
yet your latter end would greatly increase.
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“Please inquire of past generations.
Find out about the learning of their fathers.
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(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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Shall they not teach you, tell you,
and utter words out of their heart?
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“Can the papyrus grow up without mire?
Can the rushes grow without water?
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While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down,
it withers before any other reed.
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So are the paths of all who forget God (Elohim).
The hope of the godless man shall perish,
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Whose confidence shall break apart,
Whose trust is a spider’s web.
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He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand.
He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
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He is green before the sun.
His shoots go out along his garden.
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His roots are wrapped around the rock pile.
He sees the place of stones.
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If he is destroyed from his place,
then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
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Behold, this is the joy of his way:
out of the earth, others shall spring.
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“Behold, God (Elohim) will not cast away a blameless man,
neither will he uphold the evildoers.
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He will still fill your mouth with laughter,
your lips with shouting.
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Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame.
The tent of the wicked shall be no more.”
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