< Job 8 >
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
and to answer Bildad [the] Shuhite and to say
2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
till where? to speak these and spirit: breath mighty word lip your
3 Does God pervert justice? Or does Shaddai pervert righteousness?
God to pervert justice and if Almighty to pervert righteousness
4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
if son: child your to sin to/for him and to send: let go them in/on/with hand: power transgression their
5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your petition to Shaddai.
if you(m. s.) to seek to(wards) God and to(wards) Almighty be gracious
6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
if pure and upright you(m. s.) for now to rouse upon you and to complete pasture righteousness your
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
and to be first: beginning your little and end your to increase much
8 "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning 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 our days on earth are a shadow.)
for yesterday we and not to know for shadow day our upon land: country/planet
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
not they(masc.) to show you to say to/for you and from heart their to come out: speak speech
11 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
to rise up reed in/on/with not swamp to grow meadow without water
12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
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 who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
so way all to forget God and hope profane to perish
14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
which to cut off loin his and house: home spider confidence his
15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
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 green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.
fresh he/she/it to/for face: before sun and upon garden his shoot his to come out: issue
17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
upon heap root his to interweave place stone to see
18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'
if to swallow up him from place his and to deceive in/on/with him not to see: see you
19 Look, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
look! he/she/it rejoicing way: conduct his and from dust another to spring
20 "Look, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
look! God not to reject complete and not to strengthen: hold in/on/with hand: power be evil
21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
till to fill laughter lip your and lips your shout
22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
to hate you to clothe shame and tent wicked nothing he