Jó 8

¹ Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,

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

³ Shall God pervert that which is right or shall the Almighty pervert justice?

⁴ Because thy sons sinned against him, he cast them away in the place of their rebellion;

⁵ if thou would seek God early and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

⁶ if thou [wert] pure and upright, surely now he would awake upon thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

⁷ [In such a way] that thy beginning would have been small, [in comparison] to the great increase of thy latter.

⁸ Ask, I pray thee, of the former age, and be willing to enquire of thy fathers regarding them;

⁹ for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.

¹⁰ Shall they not teach thee [and] tell thee and utter [these] words out of their heart?

¹¹ Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the meadow grow without water?

¹² Whilst it [is] yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withers before any [other] herb.

¹³ So [are] the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite's hope shall perish.

¹⁴ For his hope shall be cut off, and his trust is 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.

¹⁶ [Like a tree], he [is] green before the sun, and his branches go forth over his garden;

¹⁷ his roots weave themselves around a spring [and] secure themselves even in a stony place.

¹⁸ If he is uprooted from his place, then [it] shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

¹⁹ Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth from where he was [transplanted] others, shall grow.

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man]; neither will he help the evil doers.

²¹ He will yet fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouts of joy.

²² Those that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.: