JOB CHAPTER 8 (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV)

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CHAP. VIII.

1 Bildad sheweth Gods iustice, in dealing with men according to their workes. 8 He alledgeth antiquitie to proue the certaine destruction of the Hypocrite. 20 Hee applieth Gods iust dealing to Iob.

¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

² How long wilt thou speake these things? and how long shall the wordes of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

³ Doth God peruert iudgement? or doth the Almightie peruert iustice?³

⁴ If thy children haue sinned against him, and he haue cast them away for their transgression:⁴

⁵ If thou wouldest seeke vnto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almightie:⁵

⁶ If thou wert pure and vpright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousnes prosperous.

⁷ Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

⁸ For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to the search of their fathers.⁸

⁹ (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our dayes vpon earth are a shadow.)⁹

¹⁰ Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, & vtter words out of their heart?

¹¹ Can the rush growe vp without myre? can the flag growe without water?

¹² Whilest it is yet in his greennesse, and not cut downe, it withereth before any other herbe.¹²

¹³ So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish:¹³

¹⁴ Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.¹⁴

¹⁵ He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

¹⁶ He is greene before the sunne, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

¹⁷ His roots are wrapped about the heape, and seeth the place of stones.

¹⁸ If he destroy him from his place, then it shal denie him, saying, I haue not seene thee.

¹⁹ Beholde, this is the ioy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will hee helpe the euill doers:²⁰

²¹ Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with reioycing.²¹

²² They that hate thee shall be cloathed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.²²

Job Chapter 8 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible)

³ Deu.32.4 2.chro.19.7 dan.9.14.
⁴ Heb. in the hand of their transgression
⁵ Chap.22. 23.
⁸ Deut.4. 32.
⁹ See chap. 7.6. gen.47 9. 1.chron. 29.15. psal. 144.4. psal. 39.14. , Heb. not.
¹² Psal. 129. 6. ier.17.6.
¹³ Iob.11.20 and 18,14. psal.112.10 prou.10.28
¹⁴ Heb. a spiders house.
²⁰ Heb. take the vngodly by the hand.
²¹ Heb. shouting for ioy.
²² Heb. shall not be.

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