Job 8

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:	1 The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
2 How much longer are you going to talk like this and go blustering on in this way?	2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Can God deflect the course of right or Shaddai falsify justice?	3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
4 If your sons sinned against him, he has punished them for their wrong-doing.	4 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
5 You for your part, if you are pure and honest, must now seek God, plead with Shaddai.	5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
6 Forthwith his light wil shine on you and he wil restore an upright man's house to prosperity.	6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
7 Your former state wil seem as nothing to you, so great wil your future be.	7 Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
8 Question the generation that has passed, meditate on the experience of its ancestors-	8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
9 for we children of yesterday, we know nothing, our life on earth passes like a shadow-	9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:)
10 but they wil teach you, they will tel you, and their thought is expressed in these sayings,	10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
11 'Can papyrus flourish except in marshes? Without water can the rushes grow?	11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?
12 Even when green and before being cut, fastest of al plants they wither.	12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
13 Such is the fate of al who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.	13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
14 His hope is nothing but gossamer, his confidence a spider's web.	14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.
15 Let him lean on his house, it wil not stand firm; cling to it, it wil not hold.	15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
16 Like some lush plant in the sunlight, he sent his young shoots sprouting over the garden;	16 He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth.
17 but his roots were twined in a heap of stones, he drew his life among the rocks.	17 His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.
18 Snatch him from his bed, and it denies it ever saw him.	18 If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
19 Now he rots on the roadside, and others are springing up in the soil.	19 For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
20 Believe me, God neither spurns anyone of integrity, nor lends his aid to the evil.	20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:
21 Once again laughter may fil your mouth and cries of joy break from your lips.	21 Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 Your enemies will be covered with shame and the tent of the wicked wil vanish!'	22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.