Job 8
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,
2 “How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde?
3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?
4 When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,
5 But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,
6 if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.
7 Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.
8 Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.
9 For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)
10 Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?
Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?
11 Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water?
12 While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.
13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.
14 His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.
15 He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
16 He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.
17 His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.
The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.
18 If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,
19 Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.
20 Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,
21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.
22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.
