Job 8

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:	1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, 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 pervert justice?
4 If your sons sinned against him, he has punished them for their wrong-doing.	4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
5 You for your part, if you are pure and honest, must now seek God, plead with Shaddai.	5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6 Forthwith his light wil shine on you and he wil restore an upright man's house to prosperity.	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 wil seem as nothing to you, so great wil your future be.	7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 Question the generation that has passed, meditate on the experience of its ancestors-	8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their 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 know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10 but they wil teach you, they will tel you, and their thought is expressed in these sayings,	10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 'Can papyrus flourish except in marshes? Without water can the rushes grow?	11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 Even when green and before being cut, fastest of al plants they wither.	12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
13 Such is the fate of al who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.	13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
14 His hope is nothing but gossamer, his confidence a spider's web.	14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a 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, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16 Like some lush plant in the sunlight, he sent his young shoots sprouting over the garden;	16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
17 but his roots were twined in a heap of stones, he drew his life among the rocks.	17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
18 Snatch him from his bed, and it denies it ever saw him.	18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
19 Now he rots on the roadside, and others are springing up in the soil.	19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
20 Believe me, God neither spurns anyone of integrity, nor lends his aid to the evil.	20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
21 Once again laughter may fil your mouth and cries of joy break from your lips.	21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, 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 shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.