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