Job 8
1 The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,
2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde?
3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?
4 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,
5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,
6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.
7 Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.
8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow: )
(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)
10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?
11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?
Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water?
12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.
13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.
14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.
15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
16 He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth.
The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.
17 His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.
The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.
18 If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,
19 For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.
20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:
Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,
21 Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.
22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.
