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Job 8
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1Then Baldad the Sauchite answered , and said,
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2How long will you speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of your mouth [be] abundant in words?
2How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?
3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
4If your sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.
4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
5But be you early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.
5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness .
6If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7Though then your beginning should be small, yet your end should be unspeakably great.
7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of [our] fathers:
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
9(for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
10shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?
10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture?
11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12When it is yet on the root, and [though] it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?
12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
13Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.
13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
14For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.
14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
15If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it , it shall not remain.
15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.
16He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
17He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.
17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
18If [God] should destroy [him], his placeshall deny him. Have you not seen such things,
18If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
19that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.
19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
20For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.
20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
21But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving.
21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.
22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.