Job 8

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said:	1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable 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 supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?	3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
4 And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity,	4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
5 even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty.	5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6 If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness,	6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7 so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly.	7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8 For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers,	8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
9 (of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)	9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10 and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts.	10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?	11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12 When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.	12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
13 Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish.	13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
14 His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web.	14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
15 He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.	15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16 He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.	16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
17 His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.	17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
18 If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: “I do not know you.”	18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
19 For this is the benefit of his way, that others in turn may spring up from the earth.	19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
20 God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful,	20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
21 even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing.	21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22 Those who hate you, will be clothed with confusion, and the tabernacle of the impious will not continue.	22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.