King James Version (KJV)

Job 7:6-8:22

7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7:7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. 7:8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 7:10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. 7:11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 7:12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? 7:13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; 7:14Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. 7:16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. 7:17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 7:18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 7:19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 7:20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? 7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

8:1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,8:2How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?8:3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?8:4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;8:5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;8:6If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.8:7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)8:10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?8:11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?8:12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.8:13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:8:14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.8:15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.8:16He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.8:17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.8:18If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.8:19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.8:20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:8:21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.8:22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.