Job 8

1 But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said:

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide,

2 How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?

Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde?

3 Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?

Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice?

4 And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity,

If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,

5 even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty.

Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,

6 If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your 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 so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.

And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease.

8 For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers,

Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.

9 (of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow, )

(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)

10 and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts.

Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?

11 Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?

Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water?

12 When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.

Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.

13 Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish.

So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.

14 His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web.

His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.

15 He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.

He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.

16 He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.

The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.

17 His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.

The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.

18 If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: “I do not know you.”

If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee,

19 For this is the benefit of his way, that others in turn may spring up from the earth.

Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.

20 God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful,

Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,

21 even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing.

Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.

22 Those who hate you, will be clothed with confusion, and the tabernacle of the impious will not continue.

They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.