Job 8

8 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

^2 ^Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth?

^3 ^Doth God pervert judgment //right-ruling//? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

^4 ^If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

^5 ^If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

^6 ^If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

^7 ^And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

^8 ^For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

^9 (For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)

^10 ^Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

^11 `Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?

^12 ^While it [is] in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.

^13 ^So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

^14 ^Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

^15 ^He leaneth on his house -- and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it -- and it abideth not.

^16 ^Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.

^17 ^By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

^18 ^If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!

^19 ^Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'

^20 ^Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

^21 ^While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting //teruah//,

^22 ^Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!