Job 8
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said,
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 How long will you speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of your mouth [be] abundant in words?
How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
3 Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?
Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
4 If your sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.
If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
5 But be you early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.
If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
6 If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.
If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
7 Though then your beginning should be small, yet your end should be unspeakably great.
And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
8 For ask of the former generation, and search diligently amongst the race of [our] fathers:
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
9 (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow: )
For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
10 shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?
Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture?
Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
12 When it is yet on the root, and [though] it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?
Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
13 Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
14 For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.
Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
15 If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.
He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
16 For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.
He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
17 He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.
His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
18 If [God] should destroy [him], his place shall deny him. Hast you not seen such things,
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
19 that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
20 For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.
Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
21 But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving.
Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
22 But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.
