Job 8

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Then Baldad the Sauchite 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, [how long shall] the breath of thy mouth [be] abundant in words?

3 Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?

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

4 If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

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

5 If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty;

But be thou early in prayer to the Lord 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 art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication, and will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness.

7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.

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

8 For enquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search 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, because 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 you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

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

11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

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

12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

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 hypocrite'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 hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be 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, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, 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 green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

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

17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees 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, saying, I have not seen you.

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 earth 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 away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

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

21 Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.

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

22 They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.

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