Job 8

1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

1Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:

2How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

2How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

3Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

4Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:

5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

5Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

6If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

6If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:

7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

7In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.

8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

8For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:

9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

9(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)

10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

10And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.

11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

11Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?

12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

12When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.

13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

13Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

14His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.

15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

15He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:

16He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

16He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall shoot forth.

17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

17His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the stones he shall abide.

18If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

18If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.

19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

19For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.

20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

20God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:

21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

21Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.

22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

22They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.