Job 8

1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,Cross-references: Job 2:11

2“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · Ex 10:7 · 1Ki 19:11 · Job 6:9 · Job 6:26 · Job 7:11 · +6 more

3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Deut 32:4 · 2Chr 19:7 · Job 4:17 · Job 9:2 · Job 10:3 · +19 more

4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Gen 19:13 · Job 1:5 · Job 1:18 · Job 5:4 · Job 18:16

5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:12 · Job 5:8 · Job 11:13 · Job 22:21 · Isa 55:6 · Matt 7:7 · +2 more

6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.Cross-references: Job 1:8 · Job 4:6 · Job 5:24 · Job 16:17 · Job 21:14 · Job 22:23 · +10 more

7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.Cross-references: Deut 8:16 · Job 42:12 · Prov 4:18 · Prov 19:20 · Zech 4:10 · Zech 14:7 · +3 more

8“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.Cross-references: Deut 4:32 · Deut 32:7 · Job 12:12 · Job 15:10 · Job 15:18 · Job 32:6 · +5 more

9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)Cross-references: Gen 47:9 · 1Chr 29:15 · Job 7:6 · Job 14:2 · Ps 39:5 · Ps 90:4 · +2 more

10Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?Cross-references: Deut 6:7 · Deut 11:19 · Job 12:7 · Job 32:7 · Ps 145:4 · Prov 16:23 · +4 more

11“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?Cross-references: Ex 2:3 · Isa 19:5

12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.Cross-references: Ps 129:6 · Jer 17:6 · Matt 13:20 · James 1:10 · 1Pet 1:24

13So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,Cross-references: Deut 6:12 · Deut 8:11 · Deut 8:14 · Deut 8:19 · Job 11:20 · Job 13:16 · +15 more

14whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.Cross-references: Isa 59:5

15He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.Cross-references: Job 18:14 · Job 27:18 · Ps 49:11 · Ps 52:5 · Ps 112:10 · Prov 10:28 · +2 more

16He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.Cross-references: Job 5:3 · Job 21:7 · Ps 37:35 · Ps 73:3 · Ps 80:11 · Jer 11:16

17His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.Cross-references: Job 18:16 · Job 29:19 · Isa 5:24 · Isa 40:24 · Jer 12:1 · Mark 11:20 · +1 more

18If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’Cross-references: Job 7:8 · Job 7:10 · Job 20:9 · Ps 37:10 · Ps 37:36 · Ps 73:18 · +1 more

19Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:8 · Job 20:5 · Ps 75:7 · Ps 113:7 · Ezek 17:24 · Matt 3:9 · +1 more

20“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.Cross-references: Job 4:7 · Job 9:22 · Job 21:30 · Ps 37:24 · Ps 37:37 · Ps 94:14 · +1 more

21He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.Cross-references: Gen 21:6 · Ezra 3:11 · Neh 12:43 · Job 5:22 · Ps 32:11 · Ps 98:4 · +5 more

22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”Cross-references: Job 7:21 · Job 8:18 · Job 18:14 · Ps 35:26 · Ps 109:29 · Ps 132:18 · +1 more