Job
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Job 8:1  Bildad from Shuhah was next to speak:

Job 8:2  "How can you keep on talking like this? You're talking nonsense, and noisy nonsense at that.

Job 8:3  Does God mess up? Does God Almighty ever get things backwards?

Job 8:4  It's plain that your children sinned against him-- otherwise, why would God have punished them?

Job 8:5  Here's what you must do--and don't put it off any longer: Get down on your knees before God Almighty.

Job 8:6  If you're as innocent and upright as you say, it's not too late--he'll come running; he'll set everything right again, reestablish your fortunes.

Job 8:7  Even though you're not much right now, you'll end up better than ever.

Job 8:8  "Put the question to our ancestors, study what they learned from their ancestors.

Job 8:9  For we're newcomers at this, with a lot to learn, and not too long to learn it.

Job 8:10  So why not let the ancients teach you, tell you what's what, instruct you in what they knew from experience?

Job 8:11  Can mighty pine trees grow tall without soil? Can luscious tomatoes flourish without water?

Job 8:12  Blossoming flowers look great before they're cut or picked, but without soil or water they wither more quickly than grass.

Job 8:13  That's what happens to all who forget God-- all their hopes come to nothing.

Job 8:14  They hang their life from one thin thread, they hitch their fate to a spider web.

Job 8:15  One jiggle and the thread breaks, one jab and the web collapses.

Job 8:16  Or they're like weeds springing up in the sunshine, invading the garden,

Job 8:17  Spreading everywhere, overtaking the flowers, getting a foothold even in the rocks.

Job 8:18  But when the gardener rips them out by the roots, the garden doesn't miss them one bit.

Job 8:19  The sooner the godless are gone, the better; then good plants can grow in their place.

Job 8:20  "There's no way that God will reject a good person, and there is no way he'll help a bad one.

Job 8:21  God will let you laugh again; you'll raise the roof with shouts of joy,

Job 8:22  With your enemies thoroughly discredited, their house of cards collapsed."

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