Job. Chapter 8. Bilad speaks. Job should repent. Then Bill Dad the shoehide answered and said,

How long will you say these things? In the words of your mouth, be a great wind. Does God pervert

justice? Or does the almighty pervert the right? If your children

have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. If you will seek

God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your

rightful habitation. And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.

For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out. For we are but of yesterday,

and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow. Will they not teach you and tell you in utter

words out of their understanding? Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water? While yet in

flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant. Such are the paths of all who forget God.

The hope of the godless shall perish. His confidence is severed and his trust is a spider's web. He leans against his house,

but it does not stand. He lays hold of it, but it does not endure. He is a lush plant before the

sun, and his shoots spread over his garden. His roots entwine the stone heap. He looks upon a house of stones.

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, I have never seen you.

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil, others will spring. Behold, God will not reject a

blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter

and your lips with shouting. Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.

Job Chapter 9

Job replies, there is no arbiter.

Then Job answered and said,

Truly I know that it is so, but how can a man be in the right before God?

If one wish to contend with him, one could not answer him once and a thousand times.

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