The Book of Job 8 |
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
Job 8:1 | And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: |
Job 8:2 | Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind sayings of thy mouth? |
Job 8:3 | Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice? |
Job 8:4 | If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression, |
Job 8:5 | If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication, |
Job 8:6 | If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness. |
Job 8:7 | And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great. |
Job 8:8 | For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers, |
Job 8:9 | (For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.) |
Job 8:10 | Do they not shew thee speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words? |
Job 8:11 | `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water? |
Job 8:12 | While it [is] in its budding uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth. |
Job 8:13 | So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish, |
Job 8:14 | Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust. |
Job 8:15 | He leaneth on his house and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it and it abideth not. |
Job 8:16 | Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out. |
Job 8:17 | By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for. |
Job 8:18 | If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee! |
Job 8:19 | Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.` |
Job 8:20 | Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers. |
Job 8:21 | While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting, |
Job 8:22 | Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not! |