1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
2 "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.
5 If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,
6 if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and reward you with a rightful habitation.
7 And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
8 "For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;
9 for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
10 Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding?
11 "Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
12 While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
13 Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.
14 His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web.
15 He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
16 He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.
17 His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.
18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, `I have never seen you.'
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth others will spring.
20 "Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
Versículos relacionados com Job, 8:
In Job 8, Job's friend, Bildade, continues to argue that Job's affliction is the result of his sin and that the solution is to repent and seek God. Bildade also emphasizes that God is just and will reward the righteous. The verses related to the topics covered in Job 8 are:
Job 4:7-9: "Remember, therefore, Who has never perished, being innocent? Or when were the righteous destroyed? As I have seen, those who pose iniquity and sow evil segar these things. , and for the wind of their wraths are consumed. " This verse reflects the belief of bility that Job's affliction is the result of his sin and that only the wicked suffer.
Proverbs 11:18: "The perverse does false work, but for whom justice sows there will be faithful reward." Bildade emphasizes that God rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked, which is reflected in this verse of proverbs.
Isaiah 55:7: "Leave the wicked to his way, and the evil man his thoughts, and convert to the Lord, to be sympathetic to Him; become to our God, because it is great to forgive." Bildy suggests that the solution to Job's affliction is to repent and seek God, which is emphasized in this verse of Isaiah.
James 5:11: "Behold, we have Blessed are those who have suffered. You have heard what was the patience of Job and saw the end that the Lord gave him; for the Lord is very merciful and godly." This verse highlights Job's patience and its final reward, which contradicts the belief of bility that only the wicked suffer.
1 John 1:9: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and purify us from all injustice." This verse reflects the belief of bility that the solution to Job's affliction is to repent and seek God, but also emphasizes God's mercy and justice in forgiving sins.
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