Job 8 — YLT

8Verse 1And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —^{Verse 2}Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind — sayings of thy mouth?^{Verse 3}Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?^{Verse 4}If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,^{Verse 5}If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,^{Verse 6}If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.^{Verse 7}And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.^{Verse 8}For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,^{Verse 9}(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)^{Verse 10}Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?^{Verse 11}'Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?^{Verse 12}While it [is] in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.^{Verse 13}So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,^{Verse 14}Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.^{Verse 15}He leaneth on his house — and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it — and it abideth not.^{Verse 16}Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.^{Verse 17}By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.^{Verse 18}If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!^{Verse 19}Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'^{Verse 20}Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.^{Verse 21}While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,^{Verse 22}Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!