Job 8
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
“Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?
3 Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?
4 If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
If your sons have sinned before Him, And He sends them away, By the hand of their transgression,
5 If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
If you seek for God early, And make supplication to the Mighty,
6 If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
If you [are] pure and upright, Surely now He wakes for you, And has completed The habitation of your righteousness.
7 And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
And your beginning has been small, And your latter end is very great.
8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
For inquire, please, of a former generation, And prepare for a search of their 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 we do not know, For our days [are] a shadow on earth.
10 Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Do they not show you—speak to you, And from their heart bring forth words?
11 Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water?
12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, Even before any herb it withers.
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane perishes,
14 Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
He leans on his house—and it does not stand, He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.
16 He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
He [is] green before the sun, And over his garden his branch goes out.
17 His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
His roots are wrapped by a heap, He looks for a house of stones.
18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
If [one] destroys him from his place, Then it has feigned concerning him, I have not seen you!
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
Behold, this [is] the joy of His way, And from the dust others spring up.
20 Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
Behold, God does not reject the perfect, Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers.
21 Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
While He fills your mouth with laughter, And your lips with shouting,
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.
Those hating you put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!”
