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Job 8
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
2How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
2How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
3Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
3Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?
4Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
4If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
5Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
5If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;
6If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
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.
7In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
7And though your start was small, your end will be very great.
8For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
8Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:
9(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)
9(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
10And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
10Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?
11Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?
11Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?
12When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
13Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
13So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:
14His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.
14Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
15He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
15He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.
16He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.
16He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.
17His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.
17His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.
18If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
18If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.
19For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
19Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.
20God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:
20Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.