Job 8
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
3 Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
4 If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
5 If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
6 If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
8 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow: )
For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
10 Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb.
Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.
He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.
His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
21 Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.
Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
22 They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.
