Job 8

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said,

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,

2 How long will you speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of your mouth [be] abundant in words?

How long will thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?

3 Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

4 If your sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.

If thy sons have sinned against him, and he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression,

5 But be you early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.

if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

6 If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.

if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

7 Though then your beginning should be small, yet your end should be unspeakably great.

And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

8 For ask of the former generation, and search diligently amongst the race of [our] fathers:

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out

9 (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow: )

(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

10 shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?

Shall they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

11 Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture?

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can a reed grow without water?

12 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?

While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

13 Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,

14 For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.

whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.

15 If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

16 For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.

He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.

17 He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.

His roots are wrapped around the stone heap. He beholds the place of stones.

18 If [God] should destroy [him], his place shall deny him. Hast you not seen such things,

If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

19 that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.

20 For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evildoers.

21 But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving.

He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.

22 But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.

Those who hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.