Job 8

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and [let] like a mighty wind be the words of thy mouth?

How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?

3 Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?

4 If thy children have sinned against him, then did he send them off through the means of their transgression.

Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,

5 If thou wilt earnestly seek for God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD, —and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;

6 If thou become pure and upright: surely then will he watch over thee, and restore thy righteous habitation.

If, pure and upright, thou thyself, art, surely, now, will he answer thy prayer, and will prosper thy righteous habitation:

7 And thy beginning will have been small; because thy latter end will grow up greatly.

So shall thy beginning appear small, —when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!

8 For ask, I pray thee, of an earlier generation, and prepare thyself to [stand by] the research of their 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 know nothing, because a [mere] shadow are our days upon earth; —

For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:

10 Behold, these will truly teach thee, they will speak unto thee, and out of their very heart will they bring forth words:

Shall, they, not teach thee—tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words?

11 Can the bulrush shoot upward without mire? can the meadow-grass grow up without water?

Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?

12 It is yet in its greenness, not yet cut down, when it withereth before any other grass.

Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:

13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite will perish:

So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:

14 [It is he] whose trust will be cut off, and but a spider's web is that in which he confideth.

Whose trust shall be contemptible, —and, a spider’s web, his confidence:

15 He leaneth against his house, but it shall not stand: he layeth fast hold on it, but it shall not remain erect.

He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect.

16 He is in full vigor before the sun, and over his garden his shoots go forth.

Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:

17 His roots are twisted about a stoneheap, he selecteth [for himself] a place of stones.

Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;

18 But when men destroy him from his place, then will it deny him, saying, I have never seen thee.

If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him [saying] —I have not seen thee.

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the [same] dust others will grow up.

Lo! that, is the joy of his way, —and, out of the dust, shall others spring up.

20 Behold, God will not reject a perfect man, and will not hold fast by their hand the evil-doers:

Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers:

21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with joyful shouting.

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 shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!