{"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/web/job/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:39:31.581Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":8,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"|Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning 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 they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"|Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"If he is destroyed 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: out of the earth, others shall spring."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"|Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 8 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 8](https://primebible.com/web/job/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/8 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}