Job 8

World English Bible 84 include this book

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

2 “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

8 “Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

11 “Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

14 whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.

15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.

17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.

20 “Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

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2 places named in this book — no place is named in this chapter, so the whole book is shown.

Not known unknown No setting is given, and the book is deliberately placed outside Israel's history.

Traditions differ. Each position is shown rather than one asserted as settled.

Traditional: 2000 BC–1800 BC Unknown
The patriarchal setting and absence of Israelite institutions have long suggested a very early origin.
Critical: 600 BC–400 BC Unknown
Language and the developed treatment of suffering point to the exilic or post-exilic period.

Events overlapping the period this book is dated to (2000 BC–400 BC).

2600 BC–1900 BC Indus Valley cities India
Harappa and Mohenjo-daro housed tens of thousands, with planned streets and drainage, and a script still undeciphered.
2055 BC–1650 BC Egyptian Middle Kingdom Egypt
Egypt reunified under Theban rule; large-scale irrigation works and the classical form of the Egyptian language date from this period.
1900 BC–1450 BC Minoan palace culture Greece
Crete supported a literate palace society trading across the Aegean long before mainland Greece.
1755 BC–1750 BC Code of Hammurabi Mesopotamia
Babylonian law code inscribed on a basalt stele, covering property, family and injury, and predating the Mosaic law codes.
1600 BC–1046 BC Shang dynasty oracle bones China
The earliest substantial Chinese writing, inscribed on bone and shell for divination.
1600 BC–1178 BC Hittite empire Anatolia
An Anatolian power rivalling Egypt, ended in the Bronze Age collapse.
1200 BC–1150 BC Late Bronze Age collapse Mediterranean
Within roughly two generations most eastern Mediterranean states fell; cities were destroyed, trade networks broke and literacy contracted sharply.
1200 BC–1000 BC Iron working spreads in the Levant Levant
Iron gradually displaced bronze for tools and weapons across the eastern Mediterranean.

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