Job 8

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