Job 8

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¹Then Bildad the Shuhite replied to Job: ✦ ²“How long will you go on like this? You sound like a blustering wind. ✦ ³Does God twist justice? Does the Almighty twist what is right? ✦ ⁴Your children must have sinned against him, so their punishment was well deserved. ✦ ⁵But if you pray to God and seek the favor of the Almighty, ✦ ⁶and if you are pure and live with integrity, he will surely rise up and restore your happy home. ✦ ⁷And though you started with little, you will end with much. ✦ ⁸“Just ask the previous generation. Pay attention to the experience of our ancestors. ✦ ⁹For we were born but yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow. ✦ ¹⁰But those who came before us will teach you. They will teach you the wisdom of old. ✦ ¹¹“Can papyrus reeds grow tall without a marsh? Can marsh grass flourish without water? ✦ ¹²While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut, they begin to wither more quickly than grass. ✦ ¹³The same happens to all who forget God. The hopes of the godless evaporate. ✦ ¹⁴Their confidence hangs by a thread. They are leaning on a spider’s web. ✦ ¹⁵They cling to their home for security, but it won’t last. They try to hold it tight, but it will not endure. ✦ ¹⁶The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine, its branches spreading across the garden. ✦ ¹⁷Its roots grow down through a pile of stones; it takes hold on a bed of rocks. ✦ ¹⁸But when it is uprooted, it’s as though it never existed! ✦ ¹⁹That’s the end of its life, and others spring up from the earth to replace it. ✦ ²⁰“But look, God will not reject a person of integrity, nor will he lend a hand to the wicked. ✦ ²¹He will once again fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. ✦ ²²Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the home of the wicked will be destroyed.” ✦

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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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