Job 8
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 “Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?
How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?
Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
4 If your sons have sinned before Him, And He sends them away, By the hand of their transgression,
If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
5 If you seek for God early, And make supplication to the Mighty,
If you would seek unto God early, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
6 If you [are] pure and upright, Surely now He wakes for you, And has completed The habitation of your righteousness.
If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
7 And your beginning has been small, And your latter end is very great.
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
8 For inquire, please, of a former generation, And prepare for a search of their fathers,
For enquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:
9 For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, For our days [are] a shadow on earth.
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow: )
10 Do they not show you—speak to you, And from their heart bring forth words?
Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water?
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, Even before any herb it withers.
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.
13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane perishes,
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
15 He leans on his house—and it does not stand, He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16 He [is] green before the sun, And over his garden his branch goes out.
He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.
17 His roots are wrapped by a heap, He looks for a house of stones.
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.
18 If [one] destroys him from his place, Then it has feigned concerning him, I have not seen you!
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.
19 Behold, this [is] the joy of His way, And from the dust others spring up.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
20 Behold, God does not reject the perfect, Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers.
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
21 While He fills your mouth with laughter, And your lips with shouting,
Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.
22 Those hating you put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!”
They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.
