Job 8

1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said,

2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?

How long wilt thou speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of thy mouth [be] abundant in words?

3 Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?

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

4 If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.

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

5 If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.

6 If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;

If thou art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication, and will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness.

7 And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.

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

8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;

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

9 For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.

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

10 Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

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

11 Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?

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

12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.

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?

13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,

Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

14 Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.

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

15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.

If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

16 He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;

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

17 His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.

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

18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!

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

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.

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

20 Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.

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

21 Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,

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

22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.

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