Job 8

1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —⋮

2 Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind — sayings of thy mouth?⋮

3 Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?⋮

4 If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,⋮

5 If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,⋮

6 If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.⋮

7 And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.⋮

8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,⋮

9 (For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)⋮

10 Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?⋮

11 'Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?⋮

12 While it is in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.⋮

13 So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,⋮

14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.⋮

15 He leaneth on his house — and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it — and it abideth not.⋮

16 Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.⋮

17 By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.⋮

18 If one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!⋮

19 Lo, this is the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'⋮

20 Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.⋮

21 While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,⋮

22 Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!⋮