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Job 8

1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

1 Are you finally through with your windy speech?

2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

3 God never twists justice; he never fails to do what is right.

4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

4 Your children must have sinned against God, and so he punished them as they deserved.

5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

5 But turn now and plead with Almighty God;

6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

6 if you are so honest and pure, then God will come and help you and restore your household as your reward.

7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

7 All the wealth you lost will be nothing compared with what God will give you then.

8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

8 Look for a moment at ancient wisdom; consider the truths our ancestors learned.

9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

9 Our life is short, we know nothing at all; we pass like shadows across the earth.

10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

10 But let the ancient wise people teach you; listen to what they had to say:

11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

11 "Reeds can't grow where there is no water; they are never found outside a swamp.

12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

12 If the water dries up, they are the first to wither, while still too small to be cut and used.

13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

13 Godless people are like those reeds; their hope is gone, once God is forgotten.

14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

14 They trust a thread - a spider's web.

15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

15 If they lean on a web, will it hold them up? If they grab for a thread, will it help them stand?"

16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

16 Evil people sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden.

17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

17 Their roots wrap around the stones and hold fast to every rock.

18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

18 But then pull them up - no one will ever know they were there.

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

19 Yes, that's all the joy evil people have; others now come and take their places.

20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

20 But God will never abandon the faithful or ever give help to evil people.

21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

21 He will let you laugh and shout again,

22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

22 but he will bring disgrace on those who hate you, and the homes of the wicked will vanish.

The King James Version is in the public domain.