Job 8 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Job 8:1

Job 8:1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Job 8:2

Job 8:2“How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.

Job 8:3

Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Job 8:4

Job 8:4When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

Job 8:5

Job 8:5But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,

Job 8:6

Job 8:6if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.

Job 8:7

Job 8:7Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.

Job 8:8

Job 8:8“Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,

Job 8:9

Job 8:9for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

Job 8:10

Job 8:10Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?

Job 8:11

Job 8:11Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?

Job 8:12

Job 8:12While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.

Job 8:13

Job 8:13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.

Job 8:14

Job 8:14What they trust in is fragile[fn]; what they rely on is a spider’s web.

Job 8:15

Job 8:15They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.

Job 8:16

Job 8:16They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;

Job 8:17

Job 8:17it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.

Job 8:18

Job 8:18But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’

Job 8:19

Job 8:19Surely its life withers away, and[fn] from the soil other plants grow.

Job 8:20

Job 8:20“Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.

Job 8:21

Job 8:21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.

Job 8:22

Job 8:22Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”

See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).

NIV Footnotes

(8:14)

The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

(8:19)

Or Surely all the joy it has / is that

For more information on this translation, see the NIV Preface.

Job Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

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Job 8 :: New International Version (NIV)

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NIV Footnotes

Job Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

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