Bildad: Job Must Repent
Job 8Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
“How long will you say these things? The words of your mouth are a mighty wind. Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? If your children have sinned against ʜɪᴍ, ʜᴇ has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. If you were pure and upright, surely now ʜᴇ would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their ancestors. For we were born only yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are but a shadow. Will they not teach you, tell you, and bring forth words fromtheir heart?
“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish, whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web. He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure. He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden. His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’ See, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
“Indeed, God will not cast away a blameless person, neither will he uphold the evildoers. Hᴇ will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouts of joy. Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”