Job 8

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¹Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: ✦ ²“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind. ✦ ³Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right? ✦ ⁴When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion. ✦ ⁵But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy, ✦ ⁶if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate. ✦ ⁷Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish. ✦ ⁸Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers. ✦ ⁹For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow. ✦ ¹⁰Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding? ✦ ¹¹Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water? ✦ ¹²While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass. ✦ ¹³Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish. ✦ ¹⁴His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web. ✦ ¹⁵He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure. ✦ ¹⁶He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden. ✦ ¹⁷His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones. ✦ ¹⁸If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’ ✦ ¹⁹Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust. ✦ ²⁰Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers. ✦ ²¹He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy. ✦ ²²Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Job 18 ·6 Job 7 ·5 Ps 37 ·5 Job 21 ·5 Job 5 ·5 Job 15 ·4 Deut 8 ·4 Matt 13 ·4

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 8 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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