Job 8
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Βαλδαδ ὁ Σαυχίτης λέγει
2 “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
μέχρι τίνος λαλήσεις ταῦτα πνεῦμα πολυρῆμον τοῦ στόματός σου
3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
μὴ ὁ κύριος ἀδικήσει κρίνων ἢ ὁ τὰ πάντα ποιήσας ταράξει τὸ δίκαιον
4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
εἰ οἱ υἱοί σου ἥμαρτον ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ἀπέστειλεν ἐν χειρὶ ἀνομίας αὐτῶν
5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
σὺ δὲ ὄρθριζε πρὸς κύριον παντοκράτορα δεόμενος
6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
εἰ καθαρὸς εἶ καὶ ἀληθινός δεήσεως ἐπακούσεταί σου ἀποκαταστήσει δέ σοι δίαιταν δικαιοσύνης
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
ἔσται οὖν τὰ μὲν πρῶτά σου ὀλίγα τὰ δὲ ἔσχατά σου ἀμύθητα
8 “Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
ἐπερώτησον γὰρ γενεὰν πρώτην ἐξιχνίασον δὲ κατὰ γένος πατέρων
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
χθιζοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν σκιὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὁ βίος
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
ἦ οὐχ οὗτοί σε διδάξουσιν καὶ ἀναγγελοῦσιν καὶ ἐκ καρδίας ἐξάξουσιν ῥήματα
11 “Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
μὴ θάλλει πάπυρος ἄνευ ὕδατος ἢ ὑψωθήσεται βούτομον ἄνευ πότου
12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
ἔτι ὂν ἐπὶ ῥίζης καὶ οὐ μὴ θερισθῇ πρὸ τοῦ πιεῖν πᾶσα βοτάνη οὐχὶ ξηραίνεται
13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
οὕτως τοίνυν ἔσται τὰ ἔσχατα πάντων τῶν ἐπιλανθανομένων τοῦ κυρίου ἐλπὶς γὰρ ἀσεβοῦς ἀπολεῖται
14 whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
ἀοίκητος γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἔσται ὁ οἶκος ἀράχνη δὲ αὐτοῦ ἀποβήσεται ἡ σκηνή
15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
ἐὰν ὑπερείσῃ τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ στῇ ἐπιλαβομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ ὑπομείνῃ
16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
ὑγρὸς γάρ ἐστιν ὑπὸ ἡλίου καὶ ἐκ σαπρίας αὐτοῦ ὁ ῥάδαμνος αὐτοῦ ἐξελεύσεται
17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
ἐπὶ συναγωγὴν λίθων κοιμᾶται ἐν δὲ μέσῳ χαλίκων ζήσεται
18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
ἐὰν καταπίῃ ὁ τόπος ψεύσεται αὐτόν οὐχ ἑόρακας τοιαῦτα
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
ὅτι καταστροφὴ ἀσεβοῦς τοιαύτη ἐκ δὲ γῆς ἄλλον ἀναβλαστήσει
20 “Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
ὁ γὰρ κύριος οὐ μὴ ἀποποιήσηται τὸν ἄκακον πᾶν δὲ δῶρον ἀσεβοῦς οὐ δέξεται
21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
ἀληθινῶν δὲ στόμα ἐμπλήσει γέλωτος τὰ δὲ χείλη αὐτῶν ἐξομολογήσεως
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ αὐτῶν ἐνδύσονται αἰσχύνην δίαιτα δὲ ἀσεβοῦς οὐκ ἔσται
