Job 8
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said,
Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,
2 How long will you speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of your mouth [be] abundant in words?
How long wilt thou speak these things? and [let] like a mighty wind be the words of thy mouth?
3 Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?
Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness?
4 If your sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.
If thy children have sinned against him, then did he send them off through the means of their transgression.
5 But be you early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.
If thou wilt earnestly seek for God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6 If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.
If thou become pure and upright: surely then will he watch over thee, and restore thy righteous habitation.
7 Though then your beginning should be small, yet your end should be unspeakably great.
And thy beginning will have been small; because thy latter end will grow up greatly.
8 For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of [our] fathers:
For ask, I pray thee, of an earlier generation, and prepare thyself to [stand by] the research of their fathers; —
9 (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow: )
For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because a [mere] shadow are our days upon earth; —
10 shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?
Behold, these will truly teach thee, they will speak unto thee, and out of their very heart will they bring forth words:
11 Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture?
Can the bulrush shoot upward without mire? can the meadow-grass grow up without water?
12 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?
It is yet in its greenness, not yet cut down, when it withereth before any other grass.
13 Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite will perish:
14 For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.
[It is he] whose trust will be cut off, and but a spider's web is that in which he confideth.
15 If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.
He leaneth against his house, but it shall not stand: he layeth fast hold on it, but it shall not remain erect.
16 For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.
He is in full vigor before the sun, and over his garden his shoots go forth.
17 He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.
His roots are twisted about a stoneheap, he selecteth [for himself] a place of stones.
18 If [God] should destroy [him], his place shall deny him. Hast you not seen such things,
But when men destroy him from his place, then will it deny him, saying, I have never seen thee.
19 that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the [same] dust others will grow up.
20 For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.
Behold, God will not reject a perfect man, and will not hold fast by their hand the evil-doers:
21 But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving.
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with joyful shouting.
22 But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
