{"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/dbt/job/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:30:53.691Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":8,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withereth before any other grass."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 8 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 8](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/8 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}