Bildad: Job Should Repent 1 CPDV But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said: BSB BSB: Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2 CPDV How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind? BSB BSB: “How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
3 CPDV Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just? BSB BSB: Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4 CPDV And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity, BSB BSB: When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
5 CPDV even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty. BSB BSB: But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
6 CPDV If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness, BSB BSB: if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
7 CPDV so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly. BSB BSB: Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
8 CPDV For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers, BSB BSB: Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
9 CPDV (of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,) BSB BSB: For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
10 CPDV and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts. BSB BSB: Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?
11 CPDV Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water? BSB BSB: Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
12 CPDV When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants. BSB BSB: While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass.
13 CPDV Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish. BSB BSB: Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
14 CPDV His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web. BSB BSB: His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
15 CPDV He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise. BSB BSB: He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
16 CPDV He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth. BSB BSB: He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
17 CPDV His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain. BSB BSB: His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.
18 CPDV If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: “I do not know you.” BSB BSB: If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
19 CPDV For this is the benefit of his way, that others in turn may spring up from the earth. BSB BSB: Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
20 CPDV God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful, BSB BSB: Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
21 CPDV even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing. BSB BSB: He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
22 CPDV Those who hate you, will be clothed with confusion, and the tabernacle of the impious will not continue. BSB BSB: Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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