< Job 8 >
1 and to answer Bildad [the] Shuhite and to say
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 till where? to speak these and spirit: breath mighty word lip your
How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
3 God to pervert justice and if Almighty to pervert righteousness
Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
4 if son: child your to sin to/for him and to send: let go them in/on/with hand: power transgression their
If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
5 if you(m. s.) to seek to(wards) God and to(wards) Almighty be gracious
If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
6 if pure and upright you(m. s.) for now to rouse upon you and to complete pasture righteousness your
If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
7 and to be first: beginning your little and end your to increase much
And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
8 for to ask please to/for generation first: previous and to establish: right to/for search father their
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
9 for yesterday we and not to know for shadow day our upon land: country/planet
For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
10 not they(masc.) to show you to say to/for you and from heart their to come out: speak speech
Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 to rise up reed in/on/with not swamp to grow meadow without water
Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
12 still he in/on/with greenery his not to pluck and to/for face: before all grass to wither
Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
13 so way all to forget God and hope profane to perish
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
14 which to cut off loin his and house: home spider confidence his
Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
15 to lean upon house: home his and not to stand: stand to strengthen: hold in/on/with him and not to arise: establish
He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
16 fresh he/she/it to/for face: before sun and upon garden his shoot his to come out: issue
He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
17 upon heap root his to interweave place stone to see
His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
18 if to swallow up him from place his and to deceive in/on/with him not to see: see you
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
19 look! he/she/it rejoicing way: conduct his and from dust another to spring
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
20 look! God not to reject complete and not to strengthen: hold in/on/with hand: power be evil
Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
21 till to fill laughter lip your and lips your shout
Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
22 to hate you to clothe shame and tent wicked nothing he
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.