Job 8
1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —
Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said,
2 How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?
How long wilt thou speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of thy mouth [be] abundant in words?
3 Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?
Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?
4 Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,
If thy sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.
5 Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD, —and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;
But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.
6 If, pure and upright, thou thyself, art, surely, now, will he answer thy prayer, and will prosper thy righteous habitation:
If thou art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication, and will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness.
7 So shall thy beginning appear small, —when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!
Though then thy beginning should be small, yet thy end should be unspeakably great.
8 For inquire, I pray thee, of a former generation, and prepare thyself for the research of their fathers; —
For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of [our] fathers:
9 For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:
(for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow: )
10 Shall, they, not teach thee—tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words?
shall not these teach thee, and report [to thee], and bring out words from [their] heart?
11 Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?
Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture?
12 Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:
When it is yet on the root, and [though] it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?
13 So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:
Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.
14 Whose trust shall be contemptible, —and, a spider’s web, his confidence:
For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.
15 He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect.
If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.
16 Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:
For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.
17 Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;
He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.
18 If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him [saying] —I have not seen thee.
If [God] should destroy [him], his place shall deny him. Hast thou not seen such things,
19 Lo! that, is the joy of his way, —and, out of the dust, shall others spring up.
that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.
20 Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers:
For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.
21 At length he shall fill with laughter thy mouth, and thy lips, with a shout of triumph:
But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving.
22 They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!
But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.
