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Job 8

2 Bildád sheweth that Job is a sinner, because God punisheth the wicked, and preserveth the good.
1.Then answered Bildád the Shuhite, and said,
2.How long wilt thou talke of these things? and how long shal the wordes of thy mouthe abe as a mightie winde?
3.Doeth God pervert judgement? or doeth the almighty subvert justice?
4.If thy sonnes have sinned against him, and he hathe sent them into the place of their biniquitie,
5.Yet if thou cwilt early seke unto God, and pray to the Almighty,
6.If thou be pure and upright, then surely he wil awake up unto thee, & he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnes prosperous.
7.And thogh thy beginning dbe smale, yet thy later end shal greatly increase.
8.eInquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, & prepare thy selfe to searche of their fathers.
9.(For we are but fof yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes upon earth are but a shadow)
10.Shal not thei teache thee & tel thee, and utter the wordes of their heart?
11.Can a grush growe without myre? or can the grasse growe without water?
12.Thogh it were in grene and not cut downe, yet shal it wither before anie other herbe.
13.So are the paths of all that forget God, & the hypocrite’s hope shal perish.
14.His confidence also shal be cut of, and his trust shalbe, as the house of a hspyder.
15.He shal leane upon his house, but it shal not stand: he shal holde him fast by it, yet shal it not endure.
16.The itre is grene before the sunne, and the branches spread over the garden thereof.
17.The rotes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about the house of stones.
18.If anie plucke it from his place, and it kdenie, saying, I have not sene thee,
19.Beholde, it wil rejoyce lby this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.
20.Beholde, God wil not cast away an upright man, nether wil he take the wicked by the hand,
21.Til he have filled thy mouthe with mlaughter, and thy lippes with joye.
22.They that hate thee, shalbe clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shal not remaine. The power of God. Job. 9:

Notes

2-a.
He declares that their words which would diminish anything from the justice of God is but as a puff of wind that vanishes away.
4-b.
That is, has rewarded them according to their iniquity: meaning, that Job ought to be warned by the example of his children, that he offend not God.
5-c.
That is, if you turn betime whiles God calls you to repentance.
7-d.
Though the beginnings be not so pleasant, as you would desire, yet in the end you shall have sufficient occasion to content yourself.
8-e.
He wills Job to examine all antiquity, and he shall find it true which he here says.
9-f.
Meaning, that it is not enough to have the experience of ourselves, but to be confirmed by the examples of them that went before us.
11-g.
As a rush cannot grow without moistness, so cannot the hypocrite, because he has not faith, which is moistened with God’s Spirit.
14-h.
Which is today, and tomorrow swept away.
16-i.
He compares the just to a tree, which although it be removed out of one place unto another, yet flourishes, so the affliction of the godly turns to their profit.
18-k.
That is, so that there remain nothing there to prove whether the tree had grown there, or no.
19-l.
To be planted in another place, where it may grow at pleasure.
21-m.
If you be godly, he will give you occasion to rejoice, and if not, your affliction shall increase.