{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:10:19.483Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":8,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 8 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 8](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/8 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}