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Job 8

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

2 How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

5 If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

6 If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

7 And though your start was small, your end will be very great.

8 Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

10 Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?

11 Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

13 So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:

14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

15 He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

16 He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

17 His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

18 If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

19 Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.

20 Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

21 The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.

22 Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuchi, and said,

2 How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a raging ruach (wind)?

3 Doth El pervert mishpat (justice)? Or doth Shaddai pervert tzedek?

4 If thy banim have sinned against Him, and He have cast them away for their peysha (transgression);

5 If thou wouldest seek El (G-d) earnestly, and make thy techinnah (supplication) to Shaddai;

6 If thou wert pure and yashar; surely now He would rouse Himself for thee, and restore the habitation of thy tzedek.

7 Though thy reshit (beginning) was small, yet thy acharit (end) shall be exceedingly great.

8 For inquire, now, of the dor rishon (former age), and consider the research of their avot;

9 —For we are but of temol (yesterday, etmol) and know nothing, because yameinu (our days) upon earth are a tzel (shadow)—

10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and bring forth words out of their lev?

11 Can the papyrus grow up without marsh? Can the reed grow without mayim?

12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before kol khatzir (all grass).

13 So are the paths of all that forget El (G-d), and the tikvat chanef (hope of the hypocrite, the irreligious, the secretly wicked profane person) shall perish,

14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose reliance shall be a bais akavish (spider’s web).

15 He shall lean upon his bais, but it shall not stand, he shall cling to it, but it shall not hold.

16 He is like a green plant before the shemesh, and its branch shooteth forth in its gan (garden).

17 Its shorashim (roots) are wrapped about the rock heap, and it looks on the bais avanim (place of stones).

18 But when cast away from its makom, then its place shall deny it, saying, Loh re’iticha (I never saw thee).

19 Behold, thus was the joy of its derech, and others spring forth from the aphar (dust).

20 Surely El (G-d) will not cast away a blameless man, neither will He help the resha’im (evil-doers);

21 Till He fill thy mouth with sechok (laughter), and thy lips with teruah (shouts of joy).

22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with bushah (shame), and the ohel resha’im shall be no more.