Job 8
1 But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said:
The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
2 How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?
How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?
Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
4 And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity,
Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
5 even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty.
Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
6 If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness,
If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
7 so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.
Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
8 For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers,
For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
9 (of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow, )
(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow: )
10 and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts.
And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
11 Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?
Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?
12 When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.
When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
13 Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish.
Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
14 His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web.
His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
15 He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.
He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
16 He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.
He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth.
17 His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.
His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.
18 If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: “I do not know you.”
If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
19 For this is the benefit of his way, that others in turn may spring up from the earth.
For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
20 God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful,
God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:
21 even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing.
Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 Those who hate you, will be clothed with confusion, and the tabernacle of the impious will not continue.
They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
