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Job 8

The Message Bible MSG

1 Bildad from Shuhah was next to speak:

2 "How can you keep on talking like this? You're talking nonsense, and noisy nonsense at that.

3 Does God mess up? Does God Almighty ever get things backwards?

4 It's plain that your children sinned against him - otherwise, why would God have punished them?

5 Here's what you must do - and don't put it off any longer: Get down on your knees before God Almighty.

6 If you're as innocent and upright as you say, it's not too late - he'll come running; he'll set everything right again, reestablish your fortunes.

7 Even though you're not much right now, you'll end up better than ever. To Hang Your Life from One Thin Thread

8 "Put the question to our ancestors, study what they learned from their ancestors.

9 For we're newcomers at this, with a lot to learn, and not too long to learn it.

10 So why not let the ancients teach you, tell you what's what, instruct you in what they knew from experience?

11 Can mighty pine trees grow tall without soil? Can luscious tomatoes flourish without water?

12 Blossoming flowers look great before they're cut or picked, but without soil or water they wither more quickly than grass.

13 That's what happens to all who forget God - all their hopes come to nothing.

14 They hang their life from one thin thread, they hitch their fate to a spider web.

15 One jiggle and the thread breaks, one jab and the web collapses.

16 Or they're like weeds springing up in the sunshine, invading the garden,

17 Spreading everywhere, overtaking the flowers, getting a foothold even in the rocks.

18 But when the gardener rips them out by the roots, the garden doesn't miss them one bit.

19 The sooner the godless are gone, the better; then good plants can grow in their place.

20 "There's no way that God will reject a good person, and there is no way he'll help a bad one.

21 God will let you laugh again; you'll raise the roof with shouts of joy,

22 With your enemies thoroughly discredited, their house of cards collapsed."

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 respondens autem Baldad Suites dixit

2 usquequo loqueris talia et spiritus multiplex sermones oris tui

3 numquid Deus subplantat iudicium et Omnipotens subvertit quod iustum est

4 etiam si filii tui peccaverunt ei et dimisit eos in manu iniquitatis suae

5 tu tamen si diluculo consurrexeris ad Deum et Omnipotentem fueris deprecatus

6 si mundus et rectus incesseris statim evigilabit ad te et pacatum reddet habitaculum iustitiae tuae

7 in tantum ut priora tua fuerint parva et novissima tua multiplicentur nimis

8 interroga enim generationem pristinam et diligenter investiga patrum memoriam

9 hesterni quippe sumus et ignoramus quoniam sicut umbra dies nostri sunt super terram

10 et ipsi docebunt te loquentur tibi et de corde suo proferent eloquia

11 numquid vivere potest scirpus absque humore aut crescet carectum sine aqua

12 cum adhuc sit in flore nec carpatur manu ante omnes herbas arescit

13 sic viae omnium qui obliviscuntur Deum et spes hypocritae peribit

14 non ei placebit vecordia sua et sicut tela aranearum fiducia eius

15 innitetur super domum suam et non stabit fulciet eam et non consurget

16 humectus videtur antequam veniat sol et in horto suo germen eius egreditur

17 super acervum petrarum radices eius densabuntur et inter lapides commorabitur

18 si absorbuerit eum de loco suo negabit eum et dicet non novi te

19 haec est enim laetitia viae eius ut rursum de terra alii germinentur

20 Deus non proiciet simplicem nec porriget manum malignis

21 donec impleatur risu os tuum et labia tua iubilo

22 qui oderunt te induentur confusione et tabernaculum impiorum non subsistet