Job 8

1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —YLT — Job 8:1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11 ’Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?YLT — Job 8:11

12 While it [is] in its budding — uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.YLT — Job 8:12

13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,YLT — Job 8:13

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

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

16 Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.YLT — Job 8:16

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

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

19 Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.’YLT — Job 8:19

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

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

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