Old Testament · Poetry and wisdom

Job chapter 8

Then answered: will you go on saying these things? How long will the words out of your mouth blow like a hard ?Does God twist ? Does twist what is right?If your children , then he handed them over to .But if you would God at first light, if you would beg the Almighty for mercy,if you are , then even now he would and put your rightful home back where it belongs.What you started with will look small next to how much your ending will grow.So go ask . Give your attention to what their fathers found out,because we were born yesterday and we know nothing — our days on this earth are .Won’t they teach you? Won’t they tell you? Won’t they bring you words out of their own ?Can shoot up where there is no marsh? Can reed grass grow tall without water?While it is still green and nobody has cut it, it dries out ahead of every other plant.That is where for everyone who forgets God, and that is how the hope of dies.What he counts on gives way. What he trusts in is .He leans on his house and it does not hold. He takes hold of it and it does not stand.He is green and full of sap in the sunlight, his shoots running out over the whole garden.His roots braid themselves through a pile of stones. He looks out from .But tear him out of his place, and the place will : I never saw you.Look — this is , and out of the dirt others push up where he stood.Look — God does not throw away , and he does not of people who do harm.He will fill your mouth with laughter again, and your lips with .The people who hate you will be dressed in shame, and the tent of .