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Job 8

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

2 "{How long} will you say these [things], and the words of your mouth [be] a mighty wind?

2 “How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.

3 Does God pervert justice, {or} Shaddai pervert righteousness?

3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

4 If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the {power} of their transgression.

4 When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

5 If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace.

5 But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,

6 If you [are] pure and upright, indeed, now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode.

6 if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.

7 Though your beginning was small, your end will be very great.

7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.

8 "Indeed, please inquire of former generations, and consider {what their ancestors have found},

8 “Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,

9 for we [are of] yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth [are] a shadow.

9 for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

10 Will they themselves not teach you [and] {tell you} and {utter} words from their heart?

10 Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?

11 Can papyrus grow tall where [there is] not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water?

11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?

12 While it [is] in its flower [and] is not plucked, yet it withers {before} all grass.

12 While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.

13 So [are] the paths of all who forget God; and [the] hope of [the] godless will perish,

13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.

14 whose confidence is cut off and {whose trust} [is] a spider's house.

14 What they trust in is fragile ; what they rely on is a spider’s web.

15 He will lean himself against his house, but it will not stand; he will take hold of it, but it will not endure.

15 They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.

16 He [is] {thriving} {before} the sun, and his plant shoots spread over his garden.

16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;

17 His roots twine over a stone heap; he sees a house of stone.

17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.

18 If he destroys him from his place, then it deceives him, [saying], 'I have never seen you.'

18 But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’

19 Look, this [is] the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.

19 Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow.

20 "Look, God will not reject [the] blameless, and he will not uphold the hand of evildoers.

20 “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.

21 Yet he will fill your mouth [with] laughter and your lips [with] a shout of joy.

21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.

22 [Those] who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked {will be no more}."

22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”