Job 8 — The Holy Bible

Bildad: The Ungodly Will Perish

Job 8, verse 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

“How long will you speak these things,

And the breath of your mouth be filled with words?

Will the Lord do wrong when He judges,

Or will He who made all things trouble righteousness?

If your sons sinned against Him,

He sent them away because of their lawlessness.

But come early in the morning

And make your supplication to the Lord Almighty.

If you are pure and true, He will hear your supplication

And restore to you the dwelling of the righteous.

Though your beginning shall be small,

Your latter end will be abundantly great.

For inquire about the former generation

And search among the race of our fathers;

For we are of yesterday and know nothing,

Because our life on earth is a shadow.

Will they not teach you and proclaim to you,

And bring forth words from their heart?

“Can the papyrus bloom without water,

Or can the reeds flourish without moisture?

While it is still on the root and not yet harvested,

Does not any vegetation wither before it receives moisture?

So shall be the end of all who forget the Lord,

For the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

For his house shall be without inhabitants,

And his tent shall turn out to be a spider's web.

If he props up his house, it will not stand,

And when he takes hold of it, it will not endure.

For it is moist under the sun,

And his branch shall come forth out of his rottenness.

He shall lie down upon a pile of rocks

And shall live in the midst of flints.

If he is swallowed up, his place shall deny him.

You have not seen such things,

“That such is the destruction of the ungodly,

And out of the earth another will grow up again.

For the Lord will not cast off the innocent,

Nor will He accept any gift of an ungodly man.

He will fill the mouth of the true with laughter

And their lips with thanksgiving.

But their enemies will be clothed with shame,

And the dwelling of an ungodly man will be no more.”