18:007:014 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest
me through
visions:
18:007:015 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and
death rather than my
life.
18:007:016 I loathe it; I would not live alway:
let me alone; for my days
are
vanity.
18:007:017 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify
him? and that thou
shouldest
set thine heart upon him?
18:007:018 And that thou shouldest visit him every
morning, and try him
every
moment?
18:007:019 How long wilt thou not depart from me,
nor let me alone till I
swallow
down my spittle?
18:007:020 I 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?
18:007:021 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression,
and take away
my
iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou
shalt
seek
me in the morning, but I shall not be.
18:008:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
18:008:002 How long wilt thou speak these things?
and how long shall the
words
of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
18:008:003 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the
Almighty pervert
justice?
18:008:004 If thy children have sinned against him,
and he have cast them
away
for their transgression;
18:008:005 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes,
and make thy
supplication
to the Almighty;
18:008:006 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now
he would awake for
thee,
and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
18:008:007 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy
latter end should
greatly
increase.
18:008:008 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former
age, and prepare
thyself
to the search of their fathers:
18:008:009 (For we are but of yesterday, and know
nothing, because our
days
upon earth are a shadow:)
18:008:010 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee,
and utter words out
of
their heart?
18:008:011 Can the rush grow up without mire? can
the flag grow without
water?
18:008:012 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and
not cut down, it
withereth
before any other herb.
18:008:013 So are the paths of all that forget God;
and the hypocrite’s
hope
shall perish:
18:008:014 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose
trust shall be a
spider’s
web.
18:008:015 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall
not stand: he shall
hold
it fast, but it shall not endure.
18:008:016 He is green before the sun, and his branch
shooteth forth in
his
garden.


