Job 8
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Bildad speaks sharp words to Job
Verse 1
WEB Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
KJV Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
TSK Bildad: job 2:11
Verse 2
WEB “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
KJV How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
TSK How long: job 11:2,3, job 16:3, job 18:2, job 19:2,3, ex 10:3,7, pr 1:22; the words: job 6:9,26, job 7:11, job 15:2, 1ki 19:11
Verse 3
WEB Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
KJV Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
TSK God: job 4:17, job 9:2, job 10:3, job 19:7, job 34:5,12,17-19, job 40:8, ge 18:25, de 32:4, 2ch 19:7, eze 18:25, eze 33:17,20, ps 89:14, da 9:14, ro 2:5, ro 3:4-6; Almighty: job 21:15,20, job 34:10-12, job 35:13, job 40:2, ps 99:4, re 15:3, re 16:7
Verse 4
WEB If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
KJV If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
TSK he have cast: job 1:5,18,19, job 5:4, job 18:16-19, ge 13:13, ge 19:13-25
Verse 5
WEB If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
KJV If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
TSK thou wouldest: job 5:8, job 11:13, job 22:21-23,24-30, 2ch 33:12,13, isa 55:6,7, mt 7:7,8, heb 3:7,8, jas 4:7-10
Verse 6
WEB If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
KJV If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
TSK thou wert: job 1:8, job 4:6,7, job 21:14,15, job 16:17, ps 26:5,6, pr 15:8, isa 1:15, 1ti 2:8, 1jo 3:19-22; he would: ps 44:23, ps 59:4,5, isa 51:9; make: job 22:23-30, isa 3:10
Verse 7
WEB Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
KJV Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
TSK thy beginning: job 42:12,13, pr 4:18, zec 4:10, mt 13:12,31,32; thy latter: de 8:16, pr 19:20, zec 14:7, 2pe 2:20
False men will be destroyed
Verse 8
WEB “Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
KJV For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
TSK enquire: job 12:12, job 15:10,18, job 32:6,7, de 4:32, de 32:7, ps 44:1, ps 78:3,4, isa 38:19, ro 15:4, 1co 10:11
Verse 11
WEB “Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
KJV Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
TSK the rush: ex 2:3, isa 19:5-7
Verse 12
WEB While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
KJV Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
TSK Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.: ps 129:6,7, jer 17:6, mt 13:20, jas 1:10,11, 1pe 1:24
Verse 13
WEB So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
KJV So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
TSK that forget God: de 6:12, de 8:11,14,19, ps 9:17, ps 10:4, ps 50:22, isa 51:13; the hypocrite's: job 11:20, job 13:16, job 15:34, job 18:14, job 20:5, job 27:8-10, job 36:13, pr 10:28, pr 12:7, isa 33:14, la 3:18, mt 24:51, lu 12:1,2
Verse 14
WEB Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.
KJV Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
TSK web: isa 59:5,6
Verse 15
WEB He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
KJV He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
TSK it shall not stand: job 18:14, job 27:18, ps 52:5-7, ps 112:10, pr 10:28, mt 7:24-27, lu 6:47-49
Verse 16
WEB He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.
KJV He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
TSK green: job 21:7-15, ps 37:35,36, ps 73:3-12; his branch: job 5:3
Verse 18
WEB If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
KJV If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
TSK he: job 7:10, job 20:9, ps 37:10,36, ps 73:18,19, ps 92:7
Bildad applies God's just dealing to Job
Verse 20
WEB “Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
KJV Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
TSK God: job 4:7, job 9:22, ps 37:24,37, ps 94:14; help the evil doers: isa 45:1
Verse 21
WEB He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
KJV Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
TSK he fill: ge 21:6, ps 126:2,6, lu 6:21; rejoicing: ezr 3:11-13, ne 12:43, ps 32:11, ps 98:4, ps 100:1, isa 65:13,14
Verse 22
WEB Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more.”
KJV They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
TSK clothed: ps 35:26, ps 109:29, ps 132:18, 1pe 5:5; come to nought: job 8:18, job 7:21