Job 8

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said,

And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —

2 How long will you speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of your mouth [be] abundant in words?

Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind — sayings of thy mouth?

3 Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?

Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

4 If your sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.

If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

5 But be you early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.

If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

6 If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.

If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

7 Though then your beginning should be small, yet your end should be unspeakably great.

And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

8 For ask of the former generation, and search diligently amongst the race of [our] fathers:

For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

9 (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow: )

(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)

10 shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?

Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

11 Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture?

'Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase 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?

While it [is] in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

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 forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

14 For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.

Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

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 leaneth on his house — and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it — and it abideth not.

16 For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.

Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.

17 He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.

By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

18 If [God] should destroy [him], his place shall deny him. Hast you not seen such things,

If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!

19 that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.

Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'

20 For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.

Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

21 But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving.

While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,

22 But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.

Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!