{"id":636,"date":"2024-02-03T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/job-8"},"modified":"2024-02-03T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T04:18:12","slug":"job-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2024\/02\/03\/job-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Job 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job 8:1  And Bildad the Shuhite answered, saying:<br \/>\nJob 8:2  Until when will you speak these things, since the words of your mouth are like a mighty wind?<br \/>\nJob 8:3  Or does God pervert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?<br \/>\nJob 8:4  If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has sent them away in the hand of their transgression,<br \/>\nJob 8:5  if you would seek earnestly to God, and make your prayer to the Almighty,<br \/>\nJob 8:6  if you were pure and upright, surely now He would rise for you, and make whole the abode of your righteousness.<br \/>\nJob 8:7  And your beginning was small, yet your end would greatly increase.<br \/>\nJob 8:8  For now ask of the former generation, and prepare to the search of their fathers;<br \/>\nJob 8:9  for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing because our days on earth are a shadow.<br \/>\nJob 8:10  Shall they not teach you, speak to you, and bring forth words out of their heart?<br \/>\nJob 8:11  Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed grass grow without water?<br \/>\nJob 8:12  While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before every plant.<br \/>\nJob 8:13  So are the paths of all those forgetting God; yea, the hope of the ungodly shall perish,<br \/>\nJob 8:14  whose hope is cut off, and his trust as a spider&#8217;s house.<br \/>\nJob 8:15  He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not endure.<br \/>\nJob 8:16  He is moist before the sun, and his tender plants shoot forth on his garden.<br \/>\nJob 8:17  His roots are wrapped around a heap; he sees a house of stones.<br \/>\nJob 8:18  If one swallows him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying I have not seen you!<br \/>\nJob 8:19  Behold this is the joy of His way, and out of the earth others shall grow.<br \/>\nJob 8:20  Behold, God will not cast away the innocent, and He will not help the evildoers,<br \/>\nJob 8:21  until He fills your mouth with laughter and your lips with rejoicing.<br \/>\nJob 8:22  Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall not be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job 8:1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered, saying: Job 8:2 Until when will you speak these things, since the words of your mouth are like a mighty wind? Job 8:3 Or does God pervert judgment? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? Job 8:4 If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23045,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/23045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}