Job 8
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
1The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:
2“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
2How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
3Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
4Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
5Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
6If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake onto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
7Insomuch, that if thy former things were small, thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
8“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
8For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
9(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:)
10Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
10And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
11“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
11Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?
12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
12When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
13So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
13Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:
14whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
14His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
15He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
15He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:
16He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
16He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh, and at his rising his blossom shall shoot forth.
17His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
17His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones, and among the stones he shall abide.
18If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
18If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
19Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
19For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.
20“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
20God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evildoer:
21He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
21Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
22They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.
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