English / ERV
Job 8
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1Then Bildad from Shuah answered:
- 2“How long will you talk like that? Your words are nothing but hot air!
- 3God is always fair. God All-Powerful does what is right.
- 4If your children sinned against God, he punished them. They paid for their sins.
- 5But now, look to God and pray to the All-Powerful.
- 6If you are pure and good, he will quickly come to help you. He will give your family back to you.
- 7Then you will have a lot more than you had in the beginning!
- 8“Ask those who are now old. Find out what their ancestors learned.
- 9It seems as though we were born yesterday. We are too young to know anything. Our days on earth are very short, like a shadow.
- 10Maybe the old people can tell you something. Maybe they will teach you what they learned.
- 11“Can papyrus grow tall on a dry land? Can reeds grow without water?
- 12No, they will dry up before harvest. They will be too small to cut and use.
- 13People who forget God are like that. Those who oppose him have no hope.
- 14They have put their trust in something weak. It is like a spider’s web.
- 15When they lean against it, it will break. When they reach out for it, it will not hold them up.
- 16Such people are like a vine that gets plenty of water and sunshine, and its branches spread throughout the garden.