Job 8

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Bildad the Shuhite spoke out and said:	1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long will you utter such things? The words from your mouth are like a mighty wind!	2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Does God pervert judgment, and does the Almighty distort justice?	3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
4 If your children have sinned against him and he has left them in the grip of their guilt,	4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
5 Still, if you yourself have recourse to God and make supplication to the Almighty,	5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6 Should you be blameless and upright, surely now he will awake for you and restore your rightful domain;	6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7 Your former state will be of little moment, for in time to come you will flourish indeed.	7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 If you inquire of the former generations, and give heed to the experience of the fathers	8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
9 (As we are but of yesterday and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are but a shadow),	9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10 Will they not teach you and tell you and utter their words of understanding?	10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the reed grass flourish without water?	11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 While it is yet green and uncut, it withers quicker than any grass.	12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
13 So is the end of everyone who forgets God, and so shall the hope of the godless man perish.	13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
14 His confidence is but a gossamer thread and his trust is a spider's web.	14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
15 He shall rely upon his family, but it shall not last; he shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.	15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16 He is full of sap before sunrise, and beyond his garden his shoots go forth;	16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
17 About a heap of stones are his roots entwined; among the rocks he takes hold.	17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
18 Yet if one tears him from his place, it will disown him: "I have never seen you!"	18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
19 There he lies rotting beside the road, and out of the soil another sprouts.	19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
20 Behold, God will not cast away the upright; neither will he take the hand of the wicked.	20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
21 Once more will he fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.	21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 They that hate you shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.	22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.