Job 8
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
2 “Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?
How long will thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?
3 Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
4 If your sons have sinned before Him, And He sends them away, By the hand of their transgression,
If thy sons have sinned against him, and he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression,
5 If you seek for God early, And make supplication to the Mighty,
if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
6 If you [are] pure and upright, Surely now He wakes for you, And has completed The habitation of your righteousness.
if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7 And your beginning has been small, And your latter end is very great.
And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
8 For inquire, please, of a former generation, And prepare for a search 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 we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, For our days [are] a shadow on earth.
(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).
10 Do they not show you—speak to you, And from their heart bring forth words?
Shall they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water?
Can the rush grow up without mire? Can a reed grow without water?
12 While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, Even before any herb it withers.
While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.
13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane perishes,
So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,
14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.
15 He leans on his house—and it does not stand, He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
16 He [is] green before the sun, And over his garden his branch goes out.
He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
17 His roots are wrapped by a heap, He looks for a house of stones.
His roots are wrapped around the stone heap. He beholds the place of stones.
18 If [one] destroys him from his place, Then it has feigned concerning him, I have not seen you!
If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
19 Behold, this [is] the joy of His way, And from the dust others spring up.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.
20 Behold, God does not reject the perfect, Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers.
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evildoers.
21 While He fills your mouth with laughter, And your lips with shouting,
He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.
22 Those hating you put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!”
Those who hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
