YLT - Job - 8

8:1  And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

8:2  Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind--sayings of thy mouth?

8:3  Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

8:4  If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

8:5  If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

8:6  If pure and upright thou art , Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

8:7  And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

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

8:9  (For of yesterday we are , and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)

8:10  Do they not shew thee--speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

8:11  `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?

8:12  While it is in its budding--uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

8:13  So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

8:14  Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

8:15  He leaneth on his house--and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it--and it abideth not.

8:16  Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.

8:17  By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

8:18  If one doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!

8:19  Lo, this is the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'

8:20  Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

8:21  While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,

8:22  Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!