Job 8
1 The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —
2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?
3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?
4 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,
5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD, —and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;
6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
If, pure and upright, thou thyself, art, surely, now, will he answer thy prayer, and will prosper thy righteous habitation:
7 Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
So shall thy beginning appear small, —when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!
8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
For inquire, I pray thee, of a former generation, and prepare thyself for the research of their fathers; —
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow: )
For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:
10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
Shall, they, not teach thee—tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words?
11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?
Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?
12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:
13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:
14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
Whose trust shall be contemptible, —and, a spider’s web, his confidence:
15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect.
16 He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth.
Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:
17 His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.
Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;
18 If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him [saying] —I have not seen thee.
19 For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
Lo! that, is the joy of his way, —and, out of the dust, shall others spring up.
20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:
Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers:
21 Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.
At length he shall fill with laughter thy mouth, and thy lips, with a shout of triumph:
22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!
