< Job 8 >
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said,
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,
2 How long will you speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of your mouth [be] abundant in words?
Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde?
3 Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?
Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?
4 If your sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.
If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,
5 But be you early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.
Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,
6 If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.
If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.
7 Though then your beginning should be small, yet your end should be unspeakably great.
And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.
8 For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of [our] fathers:
Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.
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 are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)
10 shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?
Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?
11 Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture?
Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe 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?
Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.
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 al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.
14 For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.
His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.
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 leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
16 For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.
The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.
17 He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.
The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.
18 If [God] should destroy [him], his place shall deny him. Hast you not seen such things,
If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,
19 that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.
Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.
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 an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,
21 But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving.
Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.
22 But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.
They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.