Job 8

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:	1 Bildad the Shuhite spoke out and said:
2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?	2 How long will you utter such things? The words from your mouth are like a mighty wind!
3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?	3 Does God pervert judgment, and does the Almighty distort justice?
4 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:	4 If your children have sinned against him and he has left them in the grip of their guilt,
5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:	5 Still, if you yourself have recourse to God and make supplication to the Almighty,
6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:	6 Should you be blameless and upright, surely now he will awake for you and restore your rightful domain;
7 Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.	7 Your former state will be of little moment, for in time to come you will flourish indeed.
8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:	8 If you inquire of the former generations, and give heed to the experience of the fathers
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:)	9 (As we are but of yesterday and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are but a shadow),
10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.	10 Will they not teach you and tell you and utter their words of understanding?
11 Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?	11 Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the reed grass flourish without water?
12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.	12 While it is yet green and uncut, it withers quicker than any grass.
13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:	13 So is the end of everyone who forgets God, and so shall the hope of the godless man perish.
14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.	14 His confidence is but a gossamer thread and his trust is a spider's web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:	15 He shall rely upon his family, but it shall not last; he shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
16 He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth.	16 He is full of sap before sunrise, and beyond his garden his shoots go forth;
17 His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.	17 About a heap of stones are his roots entwined; among the rocks he takes hold.
18 If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.	18 Yet if one tears him from his place, it will disown him: "I have never seen you!"
19 For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.	19 There he lies rotting beside the road, and out of the soil another sprouts.
20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:	20 Behold, God will not cast away the upright; neither will he take the hand of the wicked.
21 Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.	21 Once more will he fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.
22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.	22 They that hate you shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.