Job 8
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
2 How long wilt thou speak such things? How long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Will God pervert judgment? Or will the Almighty pervert justice?
Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
4 As thy children sinned against him, He hath given them up to their transgression.
Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
5 But if thou wilt seek early to God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty, —
Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
6 If thou wilt be pure and upright, Surely he will yet arise for thee, And prosper thy righteous habitation;
If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
7 So that thy beginning shall be small, And thy latter end very great.
Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And mark what hath been searched out by their fathers;
For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
9 (For we are of yesterday and know nothing, Since our days upon the earth are but a shadow; )
(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow: )
10 Will not they instruct thee, and tell thee, And utter words from their understanding?
And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
11 “Can the paper-reed grow up without mire? Can the bulrush grow without water?
Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?
12 While it is yet in its greenness, and is not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.
When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
13 Such is the fate of all who forget God; So perisheth the hope of the ungodly.
Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
14 His confidence shall come to nought, And his trust shall prove a spider's web.
His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; He shall lay fast hold on it, but it shall not endure.
He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
16 He is in full green before the sun, And his branches shoot forth over his garden;
He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth.
17 His roots are entwined about the heap, And he seeth the place of stones;
His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.
18 When he shall be destroyed from his place, It shall deny him, saying, 'I never saw thee.'
If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
19 Lo! such is the joy of his course! And others shall spring up from his place”
For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
20 Behold, God will not cast away an upright man; Nor will he help the evil-doers.
God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:
21 While he filleth thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with gladness,
Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, And the dwelling-place of the wicked shall come to nought.
They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
