(KJV) Job 81

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⥃Bildad: Job Should Repent

[1] Then answered Bildad2 the Shuhite, and said, [2] How long3 wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words4 of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind? [3] Doth God5 pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty6 pervert justice? [4] If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast7 them away for their transgression8; [5] If thou wouldest9 seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; [6] If thou [wert10] pure and upright; surely now he would11 awake for thee, and make12 the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. [7] Though thy beginning13 was small, yet thy latter14 end should greatly increase. [8] For enquire15, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: [9] (For we [are but16 of] yesterday, and know nothing17, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:) [10] Shall not18 they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words19 out of their heart? [11] Can the rush20 grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? [12] Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.21 [13] So [are] the paths of all that forget God22; and the hypocrite’s23 hope shall perish: [14] Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider’s web24. [15] He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand25: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. [16] He [is] green26 before the sun, and his branch27 shooteth forth in his garden. [17] His roots28 are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones. [18] If he29 destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee. [19] Behold, this [is] the joy30 of his way, and out of the earth31 shall others grow. [20] Behold, God32 will not cast away a perfect [man], neither will he help the evil doers33: [21] Till he fill34 thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing35. [22] They that hate thee shall be clothed36 with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought37.

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  1. Job 8:1, Bildad shews God’s justice in dealing with men according to their works; Job 8:8, He alleges antiquity to prove the certain destruction of the hypocrite; Job 8:20, He applies God’s just dealing to Job. ↩

  2. Job 2:11 ↩

  3. Job 11:2-3, Job 16:3, Job 18:2, Job 19:2-3; Exod 10:3, Exod 10:7; Prov 1:22 ↩

  4. Job 6:9, Job 6:26, Job 7:11, Job 15:2; 1Kgs 19:11 ↩

  5. Job 4:17, Job 9:2, Job 10:3, Job 19:7, Job 34:5, Job 34:12, Job 34:17-19, Job 40:8; Gen 18:25; Deut 32:4; 2Chr 19:7; Ezek 18:25, Ezek 33:17, Ezek 33:20; Ps 89:14; Dan 9:14; Rom 2:5, Rom 3:4-6 ↩

  6. Job 21:15, Job 21:20, Job 34:10-12, Job 35:13, Job 40:2; Ps 99:4; Rev 15:3, Rev 16:7 ↩

  7. Job 1:5, Job 1:18-19, Job 5:4, Job 18:16-19; Gen 13:13, Gen 19:13-25 ↩

  8. Heb. in the hand of their transgression ↩

  9. Job 5:8, Job 11:13, Job 22:21-23, Job 22:24-30; 2Chr 33:12-13; Isa 55:6-7; Matt 7:7-8; Heb 3:7-8; Jas 4:7-10 ↩

  10. Job 1:8, Job 4:6-7, Job 21:14-15, Job 16:17; Ps 26:5-6; Prov 15:8; Isa 1:15; 1Tim 2:8; 1John 3:19-22 ↩

  11. Ps 44:23, Ps 59:4-5; Isa 51:9 ↩

  12. Job 22:23-30; Isa 3:10 ↩

  13. Job 42:12-13; Prov 4:18; Zech 4:10; Matt 13:12, Matt 13:31-32 ↩

  14. Deut 8:16; Prov 19:20; Zech 14:7; 2Pet 2:20 ↩

  15. Job 12:12, Job 15:10, Job 15:18, Job 32:6-7; Deut 4:32, Deut 32:7; Ps 44:1, Ps 78:3-4; Isa 38:19; Rom 15:4; 1Cor 10:11 ↩

  16. Job 7:6; Gen 47:9; 1Chr 29:15; Ps 39:5, Ps 90:4, Ps 102:11, Ps 144:4 ↩

  17. Heb. not ↩

  18. Job 12:7-8, Job 32:7; Deut 6:7, Deut 11:19; Ps 145:4; Heb 11:4, Heb 12:1 ↩

  19. Prov 16:23, Prov 18:15; Matt 12:35 ↩

  20. Exod 2:3; Isa 19:5-7 ↩

  21. Ps 129:6-7; Jer 17:6; Matt 13:20; Jas 1:10-11; 1Pet 1:24 ↩

  22. Deut 6:12, Deut 8:11, Deut 8:14, Deut 8:19; Ps 9:17, Ps 10:4, Ps 50:22; Isa 51:13 ↩

  23. Job 11:20, Job 13:16, Job 15:34, Job 18:14, Job 20:5, Job 27:8-10, Job 36:13; Prov 10:28, Prov 12:7; Isa 33:14; Lam 3:18; Matt 24:51; Luke 12:1-2 ↩

  24. Heb. house, Isa 59:5-6 ↩

  25. Job 18:14, Job 27:18; Ps 52:5-7, Ps 112:10; Prov 10:28; Matt 7:24-27; Luke 6:47-49 ↩

  26. Job 21:7-15; Ps 37:35-36, Ps 73:3-12 ↩

  27. Job 5:3 ↩

  28. Job 18:16, Job 29:19; Isa 5:24, Isa 40:24; Jer 12:1-2; Mark 11:20; Jude 1:12 ↩

  29. Job 7:10, Job 20:9; Ps 37:10, Ps 37:36, Ps 73:18-19, Ps 92:7 ↩

  30. Job 20:5; Matt 13:20-21 ↩

  31. 1Sam 2:8; Ps 75:7, Ps 113:7; Ezek 17:24; Matt 3:9 ↩

  32. Job 4:7, Job 9:22; Ps 37:24, Ps 37:37, Ps 94:14 ↩

  33. Heb. take the ungodly by the hand, Isa 45:1 ↩

  34. Gen 21:6; Ps 126:2, Ps 126:6; Luke 6:21 ↩

  35. Heb. shouting for joy, Ezra 3:11-13; Neh 12:43; Ps 32:11, Ps 98:4, Ps 100:1; Isa 65:13-14 ↩

  36. Ps 35:26, Ps 109:29, Ps 132:18; 1Pet 5:5 ↩

  37. Heb. not be, Job 8:18, Job 7:21 ↩