Job 8
1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, 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 mighty wind?
3 Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
4 Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have delivered them into the hand of their transgression:
5 Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD, —and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;
If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, and make thy supplication to 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 wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7 So shall thy beginning appear small, —when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!
And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 For inquire, I pray thee, of a former generation, and prepare thyself for the research of their fathers; —
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:
9 For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow: )
10 Shall, they, not teach thee—tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words?
Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.
13 So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the godless man shall perish:
14 Whose trust shall be contemptible, —and, a spider’s web, his confidence:
Whose confidence shall break in sunder, and whose trust is 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.
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
16 Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:
He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
17 Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;
His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.
18 If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him [saying] —I have not seen thee.
If he be destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
19 Lo! that, is the joy of his way, —and, out of the dust, shall others spring up.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others spring.
20 Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers:
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
21 At length he shall fill with laughter thy mouth, and thy lips, with a shout of triumph:
He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.
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 shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
