Job 8

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,

and to answer Bildad [the] Shuhite and to say

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

till where? to speak these and spirit: breath mighty word lip your

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

God to pervert justice and if Almighty to pervert righteousness

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

if son: child your to sin to/for him and to send: let go them in/on/with hand: power transgression their

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

if you(m. s.) to seek to(wards) God and to(wards) Almighty be gracious

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

if pure and upright you(m. s.) for now to rouse upon you and to complete pasture righteousness your

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

and to be first: beginning your little and end your to increase much

8 For ask, I pray thee, of an earlier generation, and prepare thyself to [stand by] the research of their fathers; —

for to ask please to/for generation first: previous and to establish: right to/for search father their

9 For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because a [mere] shadow are our days upon earth; —

for yesterday we and not to know for shadow day our upon land: country/planet

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

not they(masc.) to show you to say to/for you and from heart their to come out: speak speech

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

to rise up reed in/on/with not swamp to grow meadow without water

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

still he in/on/with greenery his not to pluck and to/for face: before all grass to wither

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

so way all to forget God and hope profane to perish

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

which to cut off loin his and house: home spider confidence his

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

to lean upon house: home his and not to stand: stand to strengthen: hold in/on/with him and not to arise: establish

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

fresh he/she/it to/for face: before sun and upon garden his shoot his to come out: issue

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

upon heap root his to interweave place stone to see

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

if to swallow up him from place his and to deceive in/on/with him not to see: see you

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

look! he/she/it rejoicing way: conduct his and from dust another to spring

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

look! God not to reject complete and not to strengthen: hold in/on/with hand: power be evil

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

till to fill laughter lip your and lips your shout

22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

to hate you to clothe shame and tent wicked nothing he