Job 8

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¹Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: ✦ ²“How long will you speak these things, And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? ✦ ³Does God subvert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert justice? ✦ ⁴If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression. ✦ ⁵If you would earnestly seek God And make your supplication to the Almighty, ✦ ⁶If you were pure and upright, Surely now He would awake for you, And prosper your rightful dwelling place. ✦ ⁷Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly. ✦ ⁸“Forinquire, please, of the former age, And consider the things discovered by their fathers; ✦ ⁹For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow. ✦ ¹⁰Will they not teach you and tell you, And utter words from their heart? ✦ ¹¹“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the reeds flourish without water? ✦ ¹²While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers before any other plant. ✦ ¹³So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish, ✦ ¹⁴Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider’s web. ✦ ¹⁵He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He holds it fast, but it does not endure. ✦ ¹⁶He grows green in the sun, And his branches spread out in his garden. ✦ ¹⁷His roots wrap around the rock heap, And look for a place in the stones. ✦ ¹⁸If he is destroyed from his place, Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’ ✦ ¹⁹“Behold, this is the joy of His way, And out of the earth others will grow. ✦ ²⁰Behold, God will not cast away the blameless, Nor will He uphold the evildoers. ✦ ²¹He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, And your lips with rejoicing. ✦ ²²Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, And the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing.” ✦

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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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