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Job 8
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2How long wilt thou speak these things? Andhow longshall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?
2How long will you keep saying these things? Your words are like a powerful, blustering wind.
3Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
3Does God cheat people? Does the Almighty twist what is right?
4If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
4If your children sinned against him, he allowed them to be punished for their rebellion.
5If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;
5But if you would look for God and pray to the Almighty for mercy,
6If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
6and if you were pure and honest, he would surely come to help you and restore your home to its rightful state.
7And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
7Though you started with little, your future would be very great.
8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out
8Just ask the previous generations, and pay attention to what their ancestors found out.
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);
9For we were born only yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow.
10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
10Won't they teach you and tell you what they have learned from their experience?
11Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?
11Can papyrus grow tall without a marsh? Can reeds grow without water?
12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.
12While they are still green and not yet cut, they wither faster than any other grass.
13So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
13That is what happens to everyone who forgets God; the hope of the godless person will fail.
14Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider’s web.
14What they rely on is fragile; their trust is like a spider’s web.迷
15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
15They lean against their house, but it falls down; they hold onto it, but it won't last.
16He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
16They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots across the garden.
17His roots are wrapped about the stone-heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.
17Its roots wrap around a pile of rocks and look for a place among the stones.
18If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
18But when it is pulled up from its place, the ground forgets it, saying, 'I never saw you.'
19Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.
19That is the 'joy' of its life; and then other plants grow up from the soil to take its place.
20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
20Look, God will not reject a person of integrity, nor will he support those who do evil.