Rotherham - Job - 8

8:1  Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:—

8:2  How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?

8:3  Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?

8:4  Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,

8:5  Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD,—and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;

8:6  If, pure and upright, thou thyself, art, surely, now, will he answer thy prayer, and will prosper thy righteous habitation:

8:7  So shall thy beginning appear small,—when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!

8:8  For inquire, I pray thee, of a former generation, and prepare thyself for the research of their fathers;—

8:9  For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:

8:10  Shall, they, not teach thee—tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words?

8:11  Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?

8:12  Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:

8:13  So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:

8:14  Whose trust shall be contemptible,—and, a spider’s web, his confidence:

8:15  He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect.

8:16  Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:

8:17  Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;

8:18  If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him [saying] —I have not seen thee.

8:19  Lo! that, is the joy of his way,—and, out of the dust, shall others spring up.

8:20  Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers:

8:21  At length he shall fill with laughter thy mouth, and thy lips, with a shout of triumph:

8:22  They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!