### American Standard Version

Job 7

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 8
#### 1 | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
#### 2 | How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
#### 3 | Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
#### 4 | If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
#### 5 | If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
#### 6 | If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
#### 7 | And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
#### 8 | For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:
#### 9 | (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);
#### 10 | Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
#### 11 | Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?
#### 12 | Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb.
#### 13 | So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
#### 14 | Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web.
#### 15 | He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
#### 16 | He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
#### 17 | His roots are wrapped about the [stone] -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.
#### 18 | If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
#### 19 | Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.
#### 20 | Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
#### 21 | He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting.
#### 22 | They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

Job 9

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