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 wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
4 If your sons have sinned before Him, And He sends them away, By the hand of their transgression,
If thy children have sinned against him, and he hath cast them away for their transgression;
5 If you seek for God early, And make supplication to the Mighty,
If thou wouldest seek to God early, and make thy 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 thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7 And your beginning has been small, And your latter end is very great.
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy 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 thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself 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 they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water?
Can the rush grow without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, Even before any herb it withers.
While it is still green, and not cut down, it withereth 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 confidence 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 shooteth 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 seeth 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 shall be destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
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 evildoers:
21 While He fills your mouth with laughter, And your lips with shouting,
Till he shall fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 Those hating you put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!”
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
