Job 8
1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —
The Baldad the Suhite 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, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?
Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
4 Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,
Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
5 Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD, —and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;
Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
6 If, pure and upright, thou thyself, art, surely, now, will he answer thy prayer, and will 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 shall thy beginning appear small, —when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!
Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
8 For inquire, I pray thee, of a former generation, and prepare thyself for the research of their fathers; —
For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
9 For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:
(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow: )
10 Shall, they, not teach thee—tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words?
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 a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?
Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?
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 in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
13 So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:
Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
14 Whose trust shall be contemptible, —and, a spider’s web, his confidence:
His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
15 He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect.
He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
16 Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:
He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth.
17 Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;
His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.
18 If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him [saying] —I have not seen thee.
If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
19 Lo! that, is the joy of his way, —and, out of the dust, shall others spring up.
For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
20 Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers:
God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:
21 At length he shall fill with laughter thy mouth, and thy lips, with a shout of triumph:
Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!
They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
