Job 8:1
And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
Job 8:2
Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind--sayings of thy mouth?
Job 8:3
Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
Job 8:4
If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
Job 8:5
If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
Job 8:6
If pure and upright thou art , Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
Job 8:7
And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
Job 8:8
For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,
Job 8:9
(For of yesterday we are , and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)
Job 8:10
Do they not shew thee--speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?
Job 8:11
`Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?
Job 8:12
While it is in its budding--uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.
Job 8:13
So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
Job 8:14
Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
Job 8:15
He leaneth on his house--and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it--and it abideth not.
Job 8:16
Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
Job 8:17
By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.
Job 8:18
If one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!
Job 8:19
Lo, this is the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'
Job 8:20
Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.
Job 8:21
While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,
Job 8:22
Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!