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Job 8
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
2How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
2How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
3Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?
3DothGod pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
4If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
4If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
5If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;
5If thou seek earnestly untoGod, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
6If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.
6If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
7And though your start was small, your end will be very great.
7And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
8Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:
8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
9(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
9For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
10Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?
10Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?
11Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
12Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
13So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:
13So are the paths of all that forgetGod; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
14Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
14Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
15He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.
15He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
16He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.
16He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
17His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.
17His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
18If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.
18If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
19Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.
19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
20Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.
20Behold,God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.